Sen. Levin: Cheney's Lying About Interrogation Memos
Levin, speaking at the Foreign Policy Association's annual dinner in New York on Wednesday, said an investigation by his committee into detainee abuse charges over the use of the techniques -- now deemed torture by the Obama administration -- "gives the lie to Mr. Cheney's claims." The Michigan Democrat told the crowd that the two CIA documents that Cheney wants released "say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques." "I hope that the documents are declassified, so that people can judge for themselves what is fact, and what is fiction," he added.
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"Cheney's world view, which so dominated the Bush years and dishonored our nation, gained a little traction last week -- enough to persuade me to address it head-on here tonight," Levin said. "I do so because if the abusive interrogation techniques that he champions, the face of which were the pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib, if they are once more seen as representative of America, our security will be severely set back." Hot Air: Carl Levin: Cheney’s lying about the CIA memos that allegedly prove torture works CNN: Levin: Memos don't show what Cheney says they do (Source: FPA)
