Exposing Cheney

It keeps getting better and better.

Dick Cheney is getting exposed for the liar that he has always been (in defense of national security, he would justify.)

The latest exposure is an article in today's Washington Post revealing that Cheney personally oversaw many, and personally and secretly appeared in some, of the briefings of Congressional leaders on torture. This was mostly in 2005, after they had (supposedly) stopped using waterboarding; but it was a hot issue because of movements in Congress to adopt legislation opposing its use. Cheney actually led the fight, even bringing in John McCain to try to get him to drop his anti-torture bill.

And Arianna Huffington, for one, is not going to let him get away with it. Headlining her blog on Huffington Post: "When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down?"

He is now saying that "the evidence was never there" linking Al Qaeda and Iraq -- and yet as recently as 2004, after the 9/11 Commission had said there was no link, Cheney was still claiming the evidence was "overwhelming." And even last week in his Heritage Foundation speech, he referred to the "known ties between Saddaam and Mideast terrorists."

So, in this latest statement, is he actually saying he lied before?

Mickey Nardo is right: Cheney is doing what he's always done: lie, twist, distort, mislead. The difference is that "We're getting better at instant refutation. . . "

And he no longer has a culpable media to parrot back whatever he says. It's a new day, Dick Cheney, and you no longer pull the strings. Get over it. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

On second thought: keep on digging. Because your digging is what's bringing the truth to light. And it's not your version of the truth that we're buying.

Ralph