IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a gang of lawless thugs and insist on the appointment of a special prosecutor to enforce the laws of the land even against those until recently holding the reins of Power, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Prosecution.

Slowly but surely, the overwhelming weight of Evidence is forcing Dick Cheney to acknowledge Reality. 

On Monday, Dick Cheney told FOX's Greta Van Susteren there was "never any evidence" linking Saddam to 9/11:

On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9/11, there was never any evidence to prove that. There was some reporting early on, for example, that Mohammed Atta had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official. But that was never borne out.

The "Atta" meeting that supposedly took place in Prague was all over our newspapers and TV for months, but was just another Neocon Big Lie. (Neocon William Safire wrote endless columns about it in the "liberal" NY Times.)

On Monday at the National Press Club, Dick Cheney offered a substantially different link between 9/11 and Iraq. For 7 years, Cheney insisted Iraq was directly linked to Al Qaeda through terrorism training, based entirely on a lie that was tortured out of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.

But Monday's argument was very different:

CHENEY: The problem we were faced with in the aftermath of 9/11 was the possibility of another 9/11-style attack, only with much deadlier technology, a 9/11 with nukes or biological agents of some kind. That concern drove a lot of our thinking in that period, in those months after 9/11.

Yes it was possible that Al Qaeda could attack again with nuclear or biological weapons, but Iraq could not have given Al Qaeda either. As David Swanson and I documented in detail,

For months, Dick Cheney has insisted his Torture produced valuable intelligence that saved "hundreds of thousands of lives." But he suddenly changed his tune in a carefully-worded interview with FOX, and implicitly admitted that Torture didn't save a single life.

Q: “You want some documents declassified having to do with waterboarding.”

A: “Yes, but the way I would describe them is they have to do with the detainee program, the interrogation program. It’s not just waterboarding. It’s the interrogation program that we used for high-value detainees. There were two reports done that summarize what we learned from that program, and I think they provide a balanced view.”

Greg Sargent explains the significance:

More videos below from Press TV:

In 2002 and 2003, Dick Cheney ordered the torture of key prisoners captured in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Cheney says he ordered torture to stop another terrorist attack, but the evidence is now clear: Cheney wanted false "confessions"  to justify the unprovoked U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Please sign our petition to Congress and Attorney General Holder:
http://www.democrats.com/iraq-torture-petition

Those "confessions" were featured in key pre-war speeches by Cheney, George Bush, and Colin Powell that betrayed Congress, the American people, and the world.

It has only been one day since President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, but I'm already bored to tears by the endless parade of conservatives on my teevee telling me empathy is the worst character trait imaginable for a judge. Judges, we are told, should strictly Enforce The Law.

So what will conservatives say when Dick Cheney begs his judge to Ignore The Law which makes torture a crime, and instead show empathy for the absolute and all-consuming Fear of Terrorists that drove Cheney to Torture?

Since PapaDick and BabyDick are all over teevee these days, maybe someone could ask them.

First watch this short video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm6KRyXBakE

You now know the answer to an international crime!

Follow the link below.

https://tips.fbi.gov/

Report Dick Cheney's confession. Really!

Then forward this mail to all your friends.

Liz Cheney accidentally admitted the truth: her dad's greatest fear is prosecution. 

The Pentagon Post keeps on lying about Pelosi. (This time it's Paul Kane and Joby Warrick.) Marcy Wheeler documents all their lies.

Chicago radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller thought he was tougher than waterboarding. Surprise! He lasted 6 seconds, then declared it's "absolutely torture."

By David Swanson

An association representing top advertisers on broadcast and cable television has proposed the creation of a new Cheney Channel dedicated exclusively to the Cheney family, the primary motivation apparently being to get Dick and Liz off all the other channels where their presence seems to be hurting the sales of advertised products.

OK, not really, but it wouldn't surprise me. One of the products that Liz Cheney seems to be hurting is in fact Dick. Ray McGovern just pointed out to me that with Lynne and Liz having probably replaced David Addington as Dick Cheney's editors, some big gaffes have slipped through. For example, in Thursday's speech Cheney listed U.S. support for Israel as one of the "true sources of resentment" for terrorists. True enough, but did Dick mean to say that?