Go Ahead And Torture - Dick Says It's OK

Following on the heels of the Dana Priest article revealing the use of secret prisons in foreign countries, we now get this - also from The Washington Post. Dan Froomkin brings us this tidbit On NPR yesterday, the former chief of staff to the secretary of state said that he had uncovered a "visible audit trail" tracing the practice of prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers directly back to Vice President Cheney's office. That would be Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, USA (RET.), former COS at the State Dept from 2002-05. "Mr. WILKERSON: I'm privy to the paperwork, both classified and unclassified, that the secretary of State asked me to assemble on how this all got started, what the audit trail was, and when I began to assemble this paperwork, which I no longer have access to, it was clear to me that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of Defense down to the commanders in the field that in carefully couched terms -- I'll give you that -- that to a soldier in the field meant two things: We're not getting enough good intelligence and you need to get that evidence, and, oh, by the way, here's some ways you probably can get it. And even some of the ways that they detailed were not in accordance with the spirit of the Geneva Conventions and the law of war. There is an audio link of the interview available HERE. "Darth Vader" Dick should be thrown out of office on his fat ass. Of course we know that will never happen as long as the Republicans control things in Washington. I guess we can only hope that eventually King George and that lying sack of platitudes Rumsfeld will join him at a "war crimes" tribunal and get their just desserts. Unfortunately, they would be treated a hell of a lot more humanely than those at Guantanamo.