The Cheney-Torture-WMD Nexus Grows

Posted on 05/14/2009 at 2:45 pm by Bob Cesca

NBC’s Robert Windrem reports for The Daily Beast:

*Two U.S. intelligence officers confirm that Vice President Cheney’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence official for Saddam Hussein, who was suspected to have knowledge of a Saddam-al Qaeda connection.

*The former chief of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, in charge of interrogations, tells The Daily Beast that he considered the request reprehensible.

*Much of the information in the report of the 9/11 Commission was provided through more than 30 sessions of torture of detainees.

As I wrote yesterday, torture is rapidly becoming just the tip of the iceberg in a broader criminal conspiracy to go to war in Iraq.

UPDATE: Zachary Roth at TPM has some additional details from Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell.

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  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    “Much of the information in the report of the 9/11 Commission was provided through more than 30 sessions of torture of detainees”Ah haNow we’re getting somewhere.The truth will come out about 9/11.

  • http://www.xkcd.com/ ∇•B=0  Silly Ratfaced Git  ∇•D=ρ

    Since I am blinded by my hatred of the Bush Administration (or so I’ve been told by BushCo apologists), I will simply state that the criminal conspiracy that is apparent by the facts now in evidence justifies, without any doubt, the designation of an independent special prosecutor to lead an investigation into war crimes not limiting the investigation to members of the Bush Administration only, but to investigate anyone and everyone that aided and abetted this criminal conspiracy.Crimes of this magnitude can not be ignored.

  • http://www.thenewwearsoff.com/ ǝlʎʞ

    Cheney (to my knowledge) does not support any of my seven ideas for saving American lives. It is a mere coincidence that none of those techniques can be used to glean false information from terror suspects?

  • Eric

    http://journals.democraticunderground.com/kpete/9669Col Wilkerson Drops A BOMBSHELL-Bushco Priority For Intell NOT Aimed At Protecting American PeoplePosted by kpete in General DiscussionThu May 14th 2009, 11:19 AM*********** Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link.There’s a word for this: it’s evil……………………..On Wednesday, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson dropped a bombshell:*****what I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 — well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion — its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com J M Ashby

    “There’s a word for this: it’s evil.”How about; Criminal ?Criminal on a grand scale.

  • rodman

    A very good article but I think that you are missing a link:Why did Cheney want an Iraqi war?Because he has major investments (and more) with Halburton. Having one war front is something that the US Military could do much of, but having a double war would put stresses upon the military and it would have to turn to companies like Halbuton. It is a bonanza and it could all be done with investments at arms length and in blind trusts.This is evil.Rodman