May 22nd, 2009:

via Cheney’s speech contained omissions, misstatements – Yahoo News.

By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu May 21, 7:10 pm ET

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense Thursday of the Bush administration’s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements. [lies]

FORMER Vice President Cheney is a lying sack of dog poo. Wait a minute. That’s what Whoopi Goldberg called Glenn Beck, and rightly so. They both are lying sacks of dog poo. McClatchy papers reporters have written a beautiful and fact filled piece on (defunct) FORMER Vice President Cheney’s lies.

He [Cheney] quoted the Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair , as saying that the information gave U.S. officials a “deeper understanding of the al Qaida organization that was attacking this country.”

But FORMER Vice President Cheney took Blair’s statement out of context [lied]. Here’s the rest:

In a statement April 21 , however, Blair said the information “was valuable in some instances” but that “there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means. The bottom line is that these techniques hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.”

I sure am glad that McClatchy Newspapers have researched and reported on FORMER Vice President Cheney’s lies. This is what good journalism is all about – telling the truth. Here’s another example of FORMER Vice President Cheney’s lies:

— Cheney said that only “ruthless enemies of this country” were detained by U.S. operatives overseas and taken to secret U.S. prisons.

A 2008 McClatchy investigation, however, found that the vast majority of Guantanamo detainees captured in 2001 and 2002 in Afghanistan and Pakistan were innocent citizens or low-level fighters of little intelligence value who were turned over to American officials for money or because of personal or political rivalries.

In addition, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Oct. 5, 2005 , that the Bush administration had admitted to her that it had mistakenly abducted a German citizen, Khaled Masri , from Macedonia in January 2004 .

Three cheers for McClatchy! Others should follow suit!

Also -why is anyone paying any attention to FORMER Vice President Cheney in the first place-especially since his approval ratings were and still are in the toilet?

Elections have consequences and the Republicans lost!

But Cheney may be doing the Dems a favor. After all, this is the stuff, the lies and propaganda and such, that we voted to change in November. More of Cheney’s vitriol against Obama may serve to shore up Obama’s base even tighter, rallying around him. This may blow up in the Republicans’ faces.