Yesterday, Carl Levin (D-MI), the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, gave a speech where he used phrases like "directly contrary," "false statements," "could not be further from the truth," and "colossal misrepresentation," to describe Dick Cheney's recent media tour to defend torture.
Via TPM:
And from Greg Sargent at The Plum Line, an excellent observation -- if we lived in a world with actual journalists:
If this is true, it’s big. A Senator who has seen the documents Cheney claims will prove that torture saved lives says that those docs contain absolutely nothing about whether the torture techniques were actually responsible for yielding any valuable intelligence.
Networks such as MSNBC have given literally hours of airtime to Cheney and his daughter Liz to claim endlessly that these docs will prove Cheney’s torture assertions. These claims have gone almost entirely unchallenged, due to the classified nature of the documents. You’d think that a contrary claim from a well-respected Senator who has also seen the docs would merit a few passing mentions, too.
Three words: Not gonna happen.
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