more waterboarding
Glenn Greenwald suggested that Cheney is taunting the Obama administration:
...not only will I not hide or apologize, but I will proudly tout and defend my role in these crimes, because I know you will do absolutely nothing about it, even though the Attorney General and the President themselves said that the act to which I'm confessing is a felony.Harper's Scott Horton wants the DOJ to rise to the occasion:
What prosecutor can look away when a perpetrator mocks the law itself and revels in his role in violating it? Such cases cry out for prosecution. Dick Cheney wants to be prosecuted. And prosecutors should give him what he wants.
Cheney asserted that "the proper way to deal with [the BVD bomber] would have been to treat him as an enemy combatant," but MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had some comments about that (h/t: Bill in Portland Maine at Daily Kos):
The underwear bomber is being treated exactly the way that terrorism suspects arrested in the U.S. were treated during the Bush administration---arrested, interrogated, charged as a criminal and, yes, that process includes being Mirandized. The Bush administration did it hundreds of times and the current administration has continued doing it. Only now, the Bush-administration-in-exile would have you believe that what they did all those years was a huge mistake...the mistakenness of which only became apparent when some other president did it, someone who's a Democrat.This is just like the deficit commission or PAYGO or cap-and-trade or televising the health reform hearings or closing Guantanamo or any of these other things, where politicians were for it until Barack Obama signed on with it. Then those same politicians are against it all of a sudden.
It's called hypocrisy. And it should be reported as such.
Oh, but the "liberal" media wouldn't do that; that kind of evidence-based investigative journalism goes counter to their standard MO of presenting every issue as a he-said-she-said, Democrats-vs.-Republicans, on-one-hand-but-then-again-on-the-other difference of opinion rather than one of having the facts on your side versus, well, just making shit up.
If Cheney ever gets convicted, maybe he could be Khalid Sheikh Muhammad's cellmate--after all, they both have blood on their hands. (True, Cheney's a delegator while KSM is a hands-on kind of guy, but they could probably get past those differences...)