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You Can't See It, But Cheney's Pants Are on Fire

Ex-veep's speech full of torture distortions

By Gabriel Winant,  Newser User

Posted May 22, 2009 10:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – In his full-on assault on the president's conterterrorism policies yesterday, Dick Cheney deployed an arsenal of “omissions, exaggerations and misstatements,” charge Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of McClatchy. Among them:

  • Cheney claimed that harsh interrogations yielded vital, attack-preventing information and quoted Adm. Dennis
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