Dick Cheney has been mounting an uncharacteristic media interview campaign to defend “enhanced interrogation.” He’s been taking about how these techniques produced “valuable information.” From a file near his former office, he’s requested to CIA reports be released. These documents he feels will prove that these techniques worked.  The most secretive man in politics, now wants information released….
Here I have a copy of the actual request he filed, with of course all of the interesting bits blacked out.  [download id="1"]
This is interesting enough, but what is more interesting is what he is NOT saying.  I’ve yet to hear any claim that these “interrogation techniques” were either legal or not torture. He’s saying he felt they had good results.  It’s like he’s trying to say that it’s okay to break the law, as long as it works.  Imagine if looters during an earthquake used this defense.   “Even if it was illegal, now I can watch the game in Hi Def.  Like it or not, these enhanced shopping techniques had good results.”
I don’t see this defense working.