Sen. Levin says Cheney is wrong

Greg Sargent's blog, The Plum Line (http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com) reports on a speech given by Senator Karl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Levin says that he has seen the classified documents that Dick Cheney keeps demanding be released so that he can prove his assertion that "lives were saved" by the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Levin says the documents do not prove anything of the sort:

Mr. Cheney has also claimed that the release of classified documents would prove his view that the techniques worked. But those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of the abusive techniques. I hope that the documents are declassified so that people can judge for themselves what is fact and what is fiction.

And Sargent adds:

Networks such as MSNBC have given literally hours of airtime to Cheney and his daughter Liz to claim endlessly that these docs will prove Cheney’s torture assertions. These claims have gone almost entirely unchallenged, due to the classified nature of the documents. You’d think that a contrary claim from a well-respected Senator who has also seen the docs would merit a few passing mentions, too.

Indeed. Levin gave the speech days ago before the Foreign Policy Administration. Has anyone seen or heard about it from the main stream media?

It's time for a resounding Bronx cheer for Cheney and his daughter Liz: "Just go away, already, and shut up with your lies and your attempts to undermine our president by sowing fear among the people."

Ralph