{"id":352816,"date":"2010-02-23T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=68782"},"modified":"2010-02-23T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T12:46:04","slug":"early-morning-swim-rachel-maddow-on-the-doj-torture-report-cheney%e2%80%99s-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352816","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the DOJ Torture Report, Cheney\u2019s Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"212\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JefazHupqz8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JefazHupqz8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"212\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/richard-adams-blog\/2010\/feb\/22\/torture-cia-dick-cheney\">Pants on fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>Cheney told Fox News back in April last year:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>There are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified. I formally ask that they be declassified now<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The memos are still secret, despite Cheney&#8217;s request. But <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/declassified\/archive\/2010\/02\/20\/justice-report-cia-memo-used-by-cheney-to-justify-waterboarding-was-inaccurate.aspx\">Newsweek&#8217;s Michael Isikoff<\/a>, in reporting the <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/issues\/issues_OPRReport.html\">latest review<\/a> on the use of torture, published last Friday, explains:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A crucial CIA memo that has been cited by former Vice President Dick Cheney and other former Bush administration officials as justifying the effectiveness of waterboarding contained &#8220;plainly inaccurate information&#8221; that undermined its conclusions, according to Justice Department investigators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were a war criminal, I&#8217;d probably lie about it, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=68782&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_68782\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pants on fire. Cheney told Fox News back in April last year: &#8220;There are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified. I formally ask that they be declassified now.&#8221; The memos are still secret, despite Cheney&#8217;s request. But Newsweek&#8217;s Michael Isikoff, in reporting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}