Cheney's House Of Cards

Interesting piece in the Washington Post on Dick Cheney's role in leading and "selling" torture in briefings to Congress and the CIA's dubious lack of admitting he was in those meetings.

Greg Sargent points out:

"The story reports that Cheney personally oversaw four or more briefings of members of congress about the torture program as part of an aggressive campaign in 2005 to maintain support for the use of torture.

But here’s the thing: The CIA documents that Republicans have widely cited as proof that Nancy Pelosi lied about what she knew didn’t mention Cheney’s presence at these briefings. Instead, as WaPo notes, the docs said that the info about who oversaw those particular briefings was “not available.”

Pelosi was broadly pilloried by Republicans and neutral observers for saying the CIA lied. Yet here’s yet more evidence that the CIA’s documents were incomplete at best and willfully misleading at worst."

Why the cover-up of Cheney's role? CIA created inaccurate notes? Seeing that Cheney was there for the sole purpose of pushing his [made-up] side of the story, funny to say his attendance was "not available". What else is not available?

The dots are being connected. Cheney's world of propaganda is coming undone.

Source: The Plum Line