Liz Cheney’s 10 lies

By now you’ve probably seen this interview with Liz Cheney

…and, like me, you probably thought ‘mmmmm.. that doesn’t ring true’ and ‘ I don’t remember that’ and other such phrases.

Well user Vian at The Daily Kos has done us all a service and itemized the lies, ten of them and then proceeded to deconstruct them.

Here are the lies that Vian tackles, please go and read the author’s excellent deconstruction of all of them

1. The Program was Widely Approved and Legal.
2. President Obama and AG Holder have ignored evidence of the program effectiveness.
3. These tactics weren’t torture because they are used in SERE in the training of our own troops.
4. Two of the people who were Waterboarded gave us information that saved American Lives.
5. Our Intellegence Gathering and Nation has been hurt by release of these memos.
6. The Techniques were limited and carefully controlled
7. The Program had Broad-based Support within the Higher-ups of the Administration, including all members of the National Security Council
8. These techniques were done to our own people (via S.E.R.E.) and they were not “Tortured”.
9. Revealing these techniques will allow our enemies to train to withstand them.
10. Al Qeada doesn’t follow Geneva so why should we?

I think that number 10 is more of a very disingenuous talking point but the other nine are flat out lies.

All taken together this is a devastating array of lies at worst, and deluded denial of facts and truth at best which has helped enable and continue a world-wide atrocity. It can’t be allowed to stand, any repetition of these baseless talking points need to be taken down and taken down Hard.

Hear hear.

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