{"id":19052,"date":"2014-12-09T12:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:54:53","slug":"dick-cheney-lied-about-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/09\/dick-cheney-lied-about-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Lied about Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/12\/08\/1350378\/-Dick-Cheney-Lied-about-torture?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Cheney Lied about Torture<\/a>. This is commentary on the <em>Politico<\/em> article <a title=\"Politico article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2014\/12\/torture-report-dick-cheney-110306.html#.VIc0CHtHddx\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture: The Senate report confirms it doesn\u2019t work. As those of us on the inside knew.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> article highlights a few points from <em>Politico<\/em> and makes some comments of its own. However, it is not until you read the author&#8217;s bio on <em>Politico<\/em> that you get an inkling of the authority of the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mark Fallon served as an interrogator for more than 30 years, including as a Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent and within the Department of Homeland Security, as the assistant director for training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fallon concludes his article with the warning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the coming days, you\u2019ll be hearing numerous torture defenders claim it kept Americans safe. Don\u2019t believe them. Many of us charged with the mission of getting information out of terrorists didn\u2019t resort to using torture. Like many Americans, we didn\u2019t want our government to use torture, and we hope it never does again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So as an armchair quarterback in this situation, are you going to think you know more about what works and does not work in interrogations than a person who has been a successful negotiator for 30 years and who is making a statement that urges you to be more judicious in your thirst for anything goes style\u00a0 of interrogation.\u00a0 Do you think he has an ulterior motive for asking us to be less bloodthirsty than our own natures might incline us to be?\u00a0 On the other hand, think of what motives Dick Cheney might have for making the claims he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article Dick Cheney Lied about Torture. This is commentary on the Politico article Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture: The Senate report confirms it doesn\u2019t work. As those of us on the inside knew.. The Daily Kos article highlights a few points from Politico and makes some comments of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19054,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions\/19054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}