Liz Cheney can't handle the truth

Liz Cheney can't handle the truth

During her remarkable summer media blitzkrieg, a stunning grasp of made-up facts

By Vincent Rossmeier


Aug. 31, 2009 | Liz Cheney, the easily exasperated eldest daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, has become a one-woman TV juggernaut in 2009, racking up more air time than a cloud as she defends her daddy's administration records.

And boy, is she wrong. Unlike so many TV pundits who spin and slide around the facts, Cheney makes no fuss about completely ignoring them, and sticking to talking points that have little relation to the truth.

Take her appearance Sunday, on ABC's "This Week," Liz Cheney, which was riddled with the sort of misstatements, obfuscations and downright lies that have now become a staple of her TV performances (video of the show is below).

When the discussion turned to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate the CIA's interrogation practices used on suspected terrorism suspects during the Bush Administration, Cheney adamantly argued against the probe. She said, "But this investigation has already been done. This was looked for five years by career prosecutors. They decided not to prosecute except in one case where a contractor has been convicted and is in jail."

The Justice Department's ethics office, the Office of Professional Responsibility, which handles attorney misconduct, recommended that nearly 12 prisoner abuse cases be revisited by Holder. This clearly suggests that the OPR is not satisfied with the previous investigations into the cases that occurred during the Bush Administration. As, according to the Justice Department Website, the OPR “is responsible for investigating allegations of misconduct involving Department attorneys,” it is likely the office concluded that the Bush-era attorneys who made the previous decisions erred in some way.

During her appearance on ABC, Cheney also said directly that waterboarding "isn't torture." However, those in the Bush Administration privately acknowledged that waterboarding was torture and President Obama has said it definitely violates the Geneva Convention -- as has Republican Senator John McCain. There seems to be near-universal agreement that waterboarding is, in fact, torture.

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It was interesting to me how nobody told her to shut up so others could speak. I guess they were afraid of her daddy's secret CIA assassination squads.

if big Dick is convicted. She just doesn't look good in a burqah.

Imagine if a Democrat tried that. Would the MSM allow Al Gore to send one of his daughters on a media blitz to prevent him from being investigated for anything?

Dick Cheney is pathetic, even for a war criminal.