Path to MSM Cred? Make Up War Crimes
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Stephen Spruiell Reporting
CNN is getting on my nerves:
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A former top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and "flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, told CNN that the practice of torture may be continuing in U.S.-run facilities.
"There's no question in my mind that we did. There's no question in my mind that we may be still doing it," Wilkerson said on CNN's "Late Edition."
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But look what they buried at the bottom:
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Earlier, on the same CNN program, Rumsfeld dismissed as "ridiculous" the claim that he was involved in a cabal.
Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they had no recollection of Wilkerson having attended meetings with Rumsfeld or Cheney.
"In terms of having first-hand information, I just can't imagine that he does," said Rumsfeld. "The allegation is ridiculous."
"I was in every meeting with the joint chiefs. I was in every meeting with the combatant commanders. I went to the White House multiple times to meet with the National Security Council and with the president of the United States. I have never seen that colonel," added Pace... [snip]
While he acknowledged having no proof that the United States is torturing detainees, Wilkerson said, "I can only assume that, when the vice president of the United States lobbies the Congress on behalf of cruel and unusual punishment and the need to be able to do that in order to get information out of potential terrorists... that it's still going on."
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As one MB reader wrote:
This is worse than "Marine out eight bucks." How did we
get to the point where foreign nationals waging war
against our US forces have instant credibility, and our
own US citizens who voluntary serve the nation in either
government or the military have no credibility? For
members of the US Armed Forces and the administration, it
appears that the only path to credibility with the media
is to make up war crimes or bad-mouth the CinC.
You got that right.
UPDATE: MB reader Diane C. writes:
"He was on CNN again this A.M. with Soledad O'Brien
refuting both Rumsfield and Pace. O'Brien as you might
expect was very sympathetic to his case. The critic
always gets the last word on CNN."
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