Liz Cheney: Special prosecutor for torture would be ’shameful’
Published: July 14, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Appearing on Fox & Friends Tuesday, Liz Cheney appeared to take credit for keeping the country safe from terrorism, saying “we have kept the nation safe since 9/11,” before turning a critical eye toward Attorney General Eric Holder for reportedly considering an investigation of the prior administration’s torture program.
Citing three unnamed sources, The Washington Post said Sunday that Holder was leaning towards appointing a special prosecutor to probe Bush-era excesses.
But such a move could set the stage for a conflict with the current administration of President Barack Obama, which wants to leave these issues in the past.
Top Obama aides have expressed concern that such an investigation might trigger partisan debates that could overtake Obama’s ambitious legislative agenda, the report said.
“We can’t [keep the country safe] without the right intelligence and the situation we’re in now has really hurt morale at the [CIA] and harmed our ability to get that intelligence,” said Cheney.
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Yeah, cunt, torture is “shameful” and your dad should be prosecuted. In fact why don’t we get the electric chair out and sit cheney, bush, rove,ashcroft,rummy,etc all on it at the same time and hit the switch.
America is safe since 9/11—what do you call the banking, mortgage, wars, health care,madoff’s, ? Those rat bastards have gutted everything out of America and the citizens are holding an empty bag.
Does anyone know how long the NAZI’s went around flapping their gums before they were taken to the Hague?
Execution’ —- If it is good enough for Texas trailer park mongoloids, then it is good enough for people who knew better and committed their crimes anyways. These people are the bloody Madoff’s. Off with their fucking heads asap.
No kidding! They didn’t stop their crime spree post 9/11 at all! In fact that’s when they really began to rachet up their raping of America.
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . .
I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require.
Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause…
for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.”
- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
preach on, you stupid war criminal cunt. preach on.
since your father is going to the Hague, maybe you should too. what, you DONT know all about it? i dont believe you for a second.
it has to do with your last name, your actions of late and that whole ‘moving lips’ thing.
please run for office, i will donate all i can to your opponent.
Morale is low. Why? Because they didn’t have the guts to stand up to Cheney in 2002 -2003 when he went down there and browbeat them into inventing the intelligence he wanted. One of the best things that could happen is that we clean out the rotten wood, those who engaged in torture, those who undermined our country, and start with people who are competent. The first to go should be those directly responsible, and I don’t need to enumerate them. Lizzy knows just who they are.
This brainwashed bitch is pathetic.
If we ever do get this evil monster in prison, it will be too bad that he doesn’t have that much longer to live. Can we send Viagra to his cell mates? Damn that energizer bunny!
I know it’s tough to hear Liz, but your dad’s an evil piece of shit that really ought to be tortured to death.
if hitler had a daughter, she would be it.
nothing but a water carrying wanna be pile of shit.
But such a move could set the stage for a conflict with the current administration of President Barack Obama, which wants to leave these issues in the past.
Top Obama aides have expressed concern that such an investigation might trigger partisan debates that could overtake Obama’s ambitious legislative agenda, the report said.
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Savior Obama can’t leave these issues in the past because he has already integrated them into HIS regime. That isn’t leaving them in the past. He is continuing the Cheney/Bush/Rove agenda. Period.
Such an investigation might trigger debates that could overtake savior Obama’s ambitious agenda? What ambitious agenda? He’s just continuing the Bush agenda. This man can’t multi-task like the rest of us have to do in our jobs? He can’t do more than one thing at a time? He can only focus on one thing at a time? How pathetic is that.
This is all theatre/show bunk. Nothing of substance will come of any of it because THEY ARE ALL PART OF IT. Holder may appoint a “special prosecutor” and give the “special prosecutor” the necessary “we must look forward” script.
If there’s a hearing, it will likely resemble the 9-11 truth commission waste-of-time show.
As for Liz Cheney, she’s as brainwashed as any of these other rabid right-wing trash.
If Obama becomes involved, the media will destroy any chances for Cheney or any of the other criminals to be held accountable for their actoins. Obama needs to let the Justice Department and Congress do what they need to do.
We’ve really gone of the rails as a country when people think that it’s “shameful” to investigate the systematic use of torture. PIssing away our values by fighting this ‘war on terror’ is exactly what Bin Laden hoped to accomplish with 9/11. Liz Cheney is dumber than a box of salt and about as moral as a rabid pit bull on crack. Chip off the old block.
Shameful, shamful? Whats shameful is that after Cheney came out last month praising all the things that torture did, information comes out that he ordered the CIA to not tell congress about an assassination (I bet theres more to come out) program which is against the law. Now he’s shutup and his daughter is out protecting him. Torture is shameful bitch, not prosecuting the person who helped it along.
This brain dead bimbo says that no laws were broken, and then ssays that her father didn’t discuss things like this. So how does she have any idea that no laws were broken? If he didn’t discuss it with her, then she has NO idea what went on.
This woman is just like the typical mafia princess who has NO idea what daddy does for a living and never thinks to ask as long as the dresses and limos keep showing up.
And she thinks that she is going to go into politics? Somehow I suspect that she will have an even shorter career than Caroline Kennedy.
BTW, Ms Cheney, what is actually shameful about this part of our country’s history is that your scum sucking, lying ass dirtbag of a father hasn’t been tarred, feathered and dragged from the back of a tank until there is nothing left but a stain. Your father is the scummiest piece of shit to ever darken the doorway of the United States government, and believe me, idiot, THAT is quite the record to have beaten. If there was EVER a person who deserves the constitutional mandate for treason, it’s him.
BITCH, your dad is what’s shamefui!
Herman Goering would have been proud of this girl.
Fox news continues to give this bitch air time. That is what is shameful.
Hey Liz, what how does it feel defending the worst war criminal since Hitler?
Your daddy is going to fry in hell for eternity.
So does MSNBC and CNN.
Tell to that our kids and the iraqs and afganistan poeople that died because of this man ..You dont know what shameful is but you will..
the only good cheney is a hung cheney
I’ve heard decapitated ones don’t cause much trouble either.
The new nickname for her should be ‘The Lizard’, and can we call Steve Doocey, Douchey, yet?
What’s shameful is Liz Cheney covering for her father’s war crimes. And she wants to run for office? Doesn’t she know that she’s letting the public in on her little secret, that nothing matters but the acquisition of power? She hasn’t a moral cell in her body. She must be thinking that, because Daddy did it, it must be morally and legally pure.
She’s an idiot. FoxNews is parading her in front of the cameras because she has wingnut celebrity status and she’s been suckered into the notion that she has something to contribute to the national body politic. FoxNews is using her as a prop.
It’s all about money, Lizzy. And you’re FoxNews’ cash cow for the moment. Ride the FoxNews wave and you get what you pay for. You may be brighter than Sarah Palin, but you’re just as clueless about where your moral compass points.
Lady, you’re a pig that is stupid beyond belief. You need to crawl back into the hole that daddy is hiding in and leave the world to the rest of us to cleam up after your asshat daddy’s shameful tirades.
This bitch is as sick and evil as they come. Her father, along with Bush and several dozen members of his cabal, belong in prison awaiting a date with the executioner.
Liz, Liz, Liz!!! Who gives a shit about AFTER 9/11? The big thing is who was the useless criminally negligent piece of shit that was asleep at the wheel BEFORE and ON 9/11? And that would be your capital criminal piece of shit father!! Who IS going to go to prison for his sick twisted perverted anti-American CRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So STFU and stay the hell off of OUR airwaves unless you want a prison cell of your own you worthless peiece of America hating garbage!!
Open a discussion about the ideal of a secret operations or secret society is evident with the Cheney’s family. Heck even from Halliburton and the secret energy discussions that happened early on in the administration were they to be national security reasons? No, Halliburton moving it’s headquarter to Saudi Dubi examples even more trust with the very enemy America is fighting. The Saudi Wahabbi.
It’s absolutely an out rage that this is even being discussed. Action is way over due. For me the whole drama reeks of deceit and complicity with the Arabs through out this war. Bush and Cheney have long time business connections with the Arabs, Such as Cheney’s Halliburton rebuilt the capital city Riyadh for untold amounts. However unfortunately, many Democrats fall over each other to get a slice of the Wahabbi pie.
So damage is likely to fall both ways. But, considering the Arabs are the principle financiers of Al Qaeda and the close business relationship the George Bush family has had with the Bin Laden family exhibits a very long abuse of power and neglect by public over sight in the mainstream media leading to out right negligence which brought America to we are now.
For me this is only my opinion after observations that there highly and likely were war decisions with oil pricing threats as retribution if Americans got Osama Bin Laden. Yes, George Bush and his administration knew this risk going into the war, So did big oil and the banking , business, and military complex knew this would be one of the most horrible transgressions that anyone could consider especially in the lose of trillions in tax dollars and our American service man’s blood. My view, for Obama not to look back to address those accountable will for ever condemn America to slide in to the abyss.
Actually Liz Cheney runs wide open and flies in the face of the common citizen where the Cheney’s require serious discretions rather than transparency has a pathetic hypocrisy. Finding out that Liz Cheney is not a lesbian but her sister is, especially at a time when her sister has a child through a private or shall we surrogate approach. Who is the father by injection? Do they really or do they want anyone to know? This kind secrecy in an openly public family the is supposed to stand by and support the Constitution in as much as their father fails horribly. And she wants to be a politician? What joke or how complicit is Liz Cheney to this fiasco. Perhaps there is the real shame…who knows maybe Liz is the architect of her father, as Rove seemed to be Bush’s brain so Liz is Dicks brain? That’s scary…
Liz is loved over at “Neocon Morning Joe with his yes-girl Mika” too.
Megaphone projection much, Lizzy?
Tenet’s Medal of ‘Freedom’
Addington
Hayden
Judge, jury, and executioner?
Mossad “advisors” just like at Abu Ghraib?
B52 ‘errant’ nukes, USMilSpec anthrax, 7/7 London bombings, Madrid train bombings, Tillman’s tight 3 shot group in the forehead, Benazir Bhutto?
“We must look forward, put these mistakes behind us and make sure they never happen again. Criminalizing disagreements over policy can only hurt our great nation. I trust my fellow Americans agree there is nothing to be gained from prosecuting those who only had our nation’s best interests at heart. If we must, let’s appoint a blue ribbon commission, with no subpoena power, to study the mistakes made by the previous administration. If the statute of limitations expires while the commission does its work, that is a matter of regret.
As several people said on MSNBC Friday night, though, there’s a new, likely to remain unspoken by our nation’s highest officials, reason there will be no investigation and no prosecutions. No one wants to investigate because everyone knows an investigation will lead to the highest office, implicating W himself. This sounds very reasonable when said aloud by serious-minded talking heads. But only a moment’s reflection gives way to the realization that this is some serious 1984, up is down, black is white almost unbelievable bullshit. The W administration’s crimes must not be investigated because they will uncover W’s crimes.” ~ hobospacejunkie
DNC & RNC have BOTH sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Independents agree on more than we disagree.
Beware the divide and conquer.
Gravel Kucinich Paul Nader
McKinney Ventura too
perotcharts.com
Five veterans
The Fed
AIPAC
9/11
Who did Cheney murder?
I don’t care about al-Qaeda. I’m talking about American and British voices who called Bush on his lies.
I’ll tell you what is shameful Lizzie, you lying for your corrupt father, and thinking the public are a bunch of fools.
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liz cheney is proof,
the apple doesn’t fall
far from the treason.
the thing about war crimes,
and murder, and treason,
is that there is not statute of limitations.
bush and cheney (and the others)
now wander the earth as damned souls.
every shadow may be god’s assassin.
every car backfire, a bullet.
obama’s just now wrapping up our healthcare program,
subsequently, the announcement that eric holder is
considering appointing a special prosecuter to look into
torture. weird coincidence? no.
the obama train is going to run over those heartless/soulless bastards.
all of them.
after torture,
there is the inconvenient truth about an illegal war.
after that, there is that meddlesome spying on american citizens.
they’ll all probably be hung and gone by the time the truth revisits
the “bush election” of 2000, and 2004.
but sadaam was hung in a hurry,
because his future trials were about
to reveal his ties to the bushes and america.
(see: smiling picture of sadaam and rumsfeld).
the thing is,
justice is not in holder’s or obama’s hands -
justice is in the hands of truth.
cheney and bush broke laws.
regardless, they are going to hell for their crimes,
either on earth of in the afterlife.
america needs to come clean for history’s sake.
america either carries bush and cheney’s crimes,
or executes them (bush/cheney) and becomes clean
(granted, sleazy/greedy capitalism, sullies any “cleanliness” we might
truly own, but it’s a start!).
bush’s crimes are worse than sadaam hussein’s.
bush took the world’s greatest democracy and drove it
into the dirt (the sand) for his greedy pack of lies and liars.
sadaam just lived and survived as a dictator, and held a disparate country
together by cruel violence and murder.
obama’s about to do the right thing.
if he doesn’t, he should give himself
the medal of “freedom.”
It’s only “shameful,” because her crooked father’s butt is in a sling for his “shameful” activities.
“Shameful” you fucking pig?
Your entire miscreant criminal family is shameful. Get the fuck out of our country.
Liz Cheney can stick a shotgun up her ass and pull the trigger.