On CBS show "Face the Nation" a former Vice President who actually shot a man in the "face" and a lawyer no less, actually had the nerve to proclaim that he preferred Rush Limbaugh a drug addict and a man who carries around illegal Viagra over a former Secretary of State and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell.
Why this surprises anyone and thinks it is news worthy is what makes me laugh. A General who has repudiated the "torture" that our five deferrment VP received during the Vietnam war endorses and has recently come out of his "undisclosed locations" to publicly endorse this war crime. On every news cast and radio station that allows him to appear or be heard.
Personally, I am glad that he is being given all this broadcast time and his statements, he is helping the prosecution and basically forcing the government to have to prosecute the "little guys" as former VP Cheney calls them.
I am sorry people like David Addington, Judge Gonzales, Harriet Miers, Scooter Libby, Judge Bybee, Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, etc can hardly be considered the "little people". Where was he when the actual "little people" the enlisted men and women of Abu Graib were being prosecuted and being called "bad apples" by Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush, when it now appears the techniques they were using are the same exact techinques that General Miller and his interrogation team brought from Gitmo in the fall of 2003, were in fact based on the "approved enhanced interrogation techniques" that were approved by Judge Bybee in the now "infamous memo's" from the OLC that the White House gave to the CIA to approve what they were doing in 2002, and until they claim they quit doing them in 2006, which however remained in effect until President Barack Obama publicly proclaimed that "no one" could use Bush era OLC opinions to protect them from prosecution for using enhanced interrogation techniques".
I am glad to see this pompous ass out front and loudly declaring what they did was "protect us" BS they made the world a more dangerous place by these methods, they recruited more volunteers for Al Qaeda by the pictures of Gitmo and Abu Graib and these are all courtesy of Dick Cheney and the treatment he advocated and still proclaims was "good for America".
I still think Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld need to be added to this lawsuit against the CIA, DOD and the Army Dick Cheney was the White House Chief of Staff and Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense in 1975 when this program was stopped due to Congressional outcry.
What This Case Is About
Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief only – no monetary damages – and Plaintiffs seek redress for 25 years of diabolical experiments followed by over 30 years of neglect, including:
the use of troops to test nerve gas, psychochemicals, and thousands of other toxic chemical or biological substances and perhaps most gruesomely, the insertion of septal implants in the brains of subjects in a ghastly series of mind control experiments that went awry;
the failures to secure informed consent and other widespread failures to follow the precepts of U.S. and international law regarding the use of human subjects, including the 1953 Wilson Directive and the Nuremberg Code;
an almost fanatical refusal to satisfy their legal and moral obligations to locate the victims of their gruesome experiments or to provide health care or compensation to them;
the deliberate destruction of evidence and files documenting their illegal actions, actions which were punctuated by fraud, deception, and a callous disregard for the value of human life.
The Complaint asks the Court to determine that Defendants’ actions were illegal and that Defendants have a duty to notify all victims and to provide them with health care going forward.
I wrote VP Cheney's office for help with my VA claim, needless to say they never responded, Congressman (Now Governor of Ohio) Ted Strickland and Lane Evans sent the Secretary of the VA James Nicholson the names of the approximately 10,000 men and women used in Cold War experiments at Edgewood Arsenal, Fort Detrick and Dugway Utah.
Then Secretary Nicholson claimed there was nothing he could do with the names despite the fact the VA has access to Social Security, IRS and VA databaaes, on 5 October 2005, he sent the lists to then Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who sent the lists to an office called SHAD, where the names would not be notified before the Bush Administration left office in 2009, since the office was backed up on work.
It might become embarassing to the nation to learn that these men who had taken us to war based on the fact that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on the Kurds, his own people. Actually has used chemical weapons and drugs like LSD, PCP and Ecstacy on 7120 enlisted people, the last time they had been in the White House under President Ford.