Fact Checking Cheney II Posted by James Lamond

Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel at McClatchy did a little fact checking of their own. 
Two good points from their article that that I missed in yesterday's post are:

Cheney accused Obama of "the selective release" of documents on Bush administration detainee policies, charging that Obama withheld records that Cheney claimed prove that information gained from the harsh interrogation methods prevented terrorist attacks.

"I've formally asked that (the information) be declassified so the American people can see the intelligence we obtained," Cheney said. "Last week, that request was formally rejected."

However, the decision to withhold the documents was announced by the CIA , which said that it was obliged to do so by a 2003 executive order issued by former President George W. Bush prohibiting the release of materials that are the subject of lawsuits.

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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

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So far Cheney seems to be winning the debate as seen by the 90-6 vote in the Senate repudiating Obama's plans to close Gitmo. In order to regain the public's support, Obama needs to let public the photos of detainee abuse because so far the public has only thought of torture in abstract terms.

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Guantanamo bay is a secret prison? Doesn't seem very secret to me, given that we're talking about it. I suspect Cheney was talking about the CIA blacksites, not Guantanamo.

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