No shame:
"I'm very proud of what we did in terms of defending the nation for the last eight years successfully," Cheney said....
No regret. Soulless:
"I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly ... is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaida," Cheney said. "The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, 'How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?'"
Whereas I imagine George W. Bush falls into deep moments of reflection and doubt in his suburban Dallas home these days as he works on his memoir, I can't fathom that this black-hearted fearmonger does anything of the sort. Then again, we do know he's a master liar capable of selling wars and unlawful conduct on many levels, so maybe there's a possibility that he agonizes over his defense of torture on a very personal level. But, again, I lean toward the former, the total embrace of the abuse of executive power to reach a perceived end. Not only do the means not justify the end that Cheney wanted (reliable, surefire intelligence gained from detainees on terror plots), but the end doesn't even exist.
Bushies are resorting to excessive distortion. They're scrambling. Dick Cheney, despite his eerie resolve, is scared to death. Scared not of this lame preliminary review from the Justice Dept. that will only punish those who were given unlawful orders from Bush hacks at DOJ. Not of the Obama administration, who refuses to uphold the law in what may be the most important series of implications for our country's affirmation of a two-tiered justice system since, well, the bank bailouts, which wasn't that long ago. Our rubber stamp of torture is recognized throughout the world. We're now the gold standard for torture, simply because it came from America.
What Dick Cheney is scared of is what will inevitably continue to trickle out through the work of the ACLU, a few journalists (notice not the mainstream media or Congress) and other former Bush officials that are just waiting to divulge what they know, when the time is right. I think we'll get confirmation that he was intimately involved (I mean on the phone multiple times a day), receiving intel from Gitmo and elsewhere and giving direct orders, laws be damned. And we'll find out that he pushed for the Iraq-Al Qaeda connection. Explicitly.
No matter how much he lies to us and himself, he knows.
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Update: And in a related, embarrassing.
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