Both MSNBC and Politico.com have just reported this story.
From Politco.com
CIA denies Cheney made demand
The Obama administration denied Tuesday that former Vice President Dick Cheney had directly asked the CIA to declassify memos that he claims would vindicate Bush-era techniques for harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists.
A senior U.S. intelligence offical e-mailed: "The Agency has received no such request from the former Vice President.”
A source familiar with the request said the former vice president made the request to the National Archives, and said that is the appropriate process for requesting declassification.
On Monday, after Cheney made the statement to Fox News, the CIA declined to comment.
When reporters at Tuesday's White House briefing asked press secretary Robert Gibbs about the existence of such memos, he referred the question to the CIA.
Politico has asked the National Archives for comment and will post it when it arrives.
http://www.politico.com/...
MSNBC: “Regarding Vice President Cheney’s request to declassify other memos, a senior intelligence official tells NBC News that the CIA has received no such request from the vice president,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported, after an interview with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Ca-Dem).
Mitchell added that it was “not clear what they would do if they got one.”
In addition, Plumline’s Greg Sargent also questions whether Cheney spoke truthfully on Sean Hannity’s show Monday night.
“Did Dick Cheney really ‘formally’ ask the CIA to release reams of intelligence allegedly showing that the torture program worked?” Sargent asks. “An intelligence source familiar with the situation says the answer is No.”
Sargent claims his source told him, “The agency has received no request from the former Vice President to release this information.”
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What Dick Cheney said on FOX:
There was an extraordinary moment during Dick Cheney’s interview on Fox News last night, in which he revealed that he’d “formally” asked the CIA to release classified intelligence that would prove that the torture program had been effective. Here’s what Cheney said, via Nexis:
There are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified.
And I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal opinions.
Whether or not we were attacked on 9/11 or thereafter, both Cheney and Bush took oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Machiavelli was not one of our nation's founders, nor did he have input to the drafting of our Constitution. The ends do not justify the means. What Bush and Cheney did was not only unconstitutional, it was, in fact, criminal.
Every day that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney walk around this country free is an insult to every man and woman who took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Arrest them both now. Let them be the only two people that President Obama declares to be "enemy combatants".
If torture had actually stopped further attacks, Cheney would have already broadcasted the incident....on the FOX Nutwork, no less.