{"id":369480,"date":"2010-02-23T23:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23213"},"modified":"2010-02-23T23:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:28:06","slug":"cheney-confesses-to-serious-crimes-%e2%80%94-torture-is-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/369480","title":{"rendered":"Cheney Confesses to Serious Crimes \u2014 Torture Is Just the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/145719\/cheney_confesses_to_serious_crimes_--_torture_is_just_the_beginning\">Alternet<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/images\/managed\/storyimages_picture8_1266449345.jpg_310x220\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dick Cheney&#8217;s statutory crimes are notable for their severity, their  number, and his public confessions to them. Torture is the least of it.<\/p>\n<p>We can start with the crimes found in the three articles of  impeachment contained in <a href=\"http:\/\/kucinich.house.gov\/SpotlightIssues\/documents.htm\">H Res 333<\/a> in the 110th Congress:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Cheney has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to  deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a  threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the  United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner  damaging to our national security interests, to wit:&#8221; (H Res 333 goes on  to list evidence).<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;Cheney purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive  the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged  relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alternet: Dick Cheney&#8217;s statutory crimes are notable for their severity, their number, and his public confessions to them. Torture is the least of it. We can start with the crimes found in the three articles of impeachment contained in H Res 333 in the 110th Congress: 1. &#8220;Cheney has purposely manipulated the intelligence process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369480","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}