Former CIA director accuses Cheney of overseeing torture

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Admiral Stansfield Turner, a former CIA director, accused US Vice President Dick Cheney of overseeing policies of torturing terrorist suspects and damaging the nation's reputation, in a television interview.

"We have crossed the line into dangerous territory," Turner, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970s, said on ITV news.

"I am embarrassed that the USA has a vice president for torture. I think it is just reprehensible. He (Mr Cheney) advocates torture, what else is it? I just don't understand how a man in that position can take such a stance."

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he takes that "stance" because he can - because they have all the power. and they think we are too chicken to take that power away from them.

You got that right. :toast:

The more voices that non-political Americans hear from people who are in or have been in positions of power, the better.

The nation is taking a magnifying-glass look at Cheney right now. That's good. I've always said that Cheney is the man to look at. HE was the one who pushed relentlessly for war. HE was the one who started the torture and abuse of prisoners.

Where everything has gone wrong, look to Cheney. You will find your source there.