After former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed during a Fox News Channel interview Monday night that he had “formally asked” the CIA to declassify memos which “showed the success of” using harsh interrogation practices such as waterboarding against detainees, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald wondered on his Twitter feed, “What mechanism does Cheney have to ‘formally’ ask the CIA to de-classify memos?”
“Did he file a FOIA request?” Greenwald asked.
Cheney had claimed on Fox, “I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal opinions.”
But, according to two reports on Tuesday, the CIA still has yet to receive a request from Cheney.
“Regarding Vice President Cheney’s request to declassify other memos, a senior intelligence official tells NBC News that the CIA has received no such request from the vice president,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported, after an interview with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Ca-Dem).
Mitchell added that it was “not clear what they would do if they got one.”
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2 comments:
Darth Cheney is tripping. On Brian Williams blog he said he noticed Cheney not being in the best of health. Now he's wheeleing around trying to keep up with Obama. Remember when he told the World Obama as a distant relative but would never invite him to the Famiy dinners. Well Cousin Dick might be going to visit Barack for help. I wonder what Dick would say after being waterboarded oh let's say 183 times.
tripping?? lol. like i have fallen and can't get up???.........such a horse's ass he be.
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