The Return Of The Nameless One

Someone jump-started Dick Cheney's battery and he emerged to complain about the President picking up after his mess.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama should put waterboarding back on the table.

Intelligence derived from the Bush-era enhanced interrogation program "probably" contributed to the of death Osama bin Laden, Cheney told Fox News' Chris Wallace.

"Which raises the question, if we were to now capture another new high value target, which is certainly more likely given this apparent trove of information that they recovered in bin Laden's compound, should the president reinstate enhanced interrogation including waterboarding?" Wallace asked.

"Well, I certainly would advocate it," Cheney replied. "I'd be a strong supporter of it."

"We went to a lot of trouble to find out what we could do, how far we could go, what was legal and so forth. Out of that emerged what we called enhanced interrogation. It worked. It provided some absolutely vital pieces of intelligence."

"It was a good program," he continued. "It was a legal program. It was not torture. I would strongly recommend we continue it."

You know, we've established that enhanced interrogation techniques goddamn torture didn't get us the info we needed to get bin Laden but regular interrogation techniques and smart fieldcraft did.  Cheney is flat out lying when he says it helped to capture OBL.  Let me repeat:  he's lying.  He wants us to now restart a program that did not yield any reliable intelligence towards getting bin Laden.

And like anyone at FOX News is going to call him on it.  But after all, this is what FOX News exists for:  the spreading of GOP propaganda, period.  You can tell the entire thing is falling apart at the seams, and the Republicans try desperately to claim total vindication for their sins.

Go home, Dick.  Nobody believes you anymore.