A Gentleman’s view.

The Cheney “we are no longer safe” tour gives impetus to an investigation of sorts.

I am a techie by paid trade, writer here, but if I were to be a lawyer by profession, I would track down the former Vice President of these United States and tell him to take a hint from the current President. Who is wishing to act like Cheney isn’t out there on a confession tour. Then tell him straight forward like;’ to shut the blank up’. I don’t know about you, but it appears to me, as a client, he pretty much, with some intense bravado, has confessed to being guilty of the war crime by authorizing torturing prisoners of war or detainees of combat and potential criminal defendants in a trial. The former Vice President Dick Cheney publicly stated the agencies wanted to know to what degree should they take the interrogations of important captives anticipated to be prisoners in this war on terror we are all caught in. He stated that he encouraged and ordered the used of ‘enhanced techniques’ to include the use of water boarding. As a former member of Congress, former Secretary of Defense, House Minority Whip he would have to know that was a crime against many United States Laws and many other international laws and treaties such as the Geneva Convention. He knows of this as a member of Congress after Viet Nam, during which US Generals designated the technique illegal. What else can we consider this tour to be but a confession tour of sorts?

The essence of all the efforts on the part of the Bush Dictatorship was to justify the act of going to war with Iraq, these techniques were stepped up was an attempt to associate the rationale for war by gathering evidence stating Iraq was involved with the attack that took place on American soil on September 11, 2001. He states his determination to have the required documents declassified he has requested (subsequently been denied) from the CIA in order to prove the enhanced techniques benefits to this country’s safety. That safety he is now so concerned our current President, Barack Obama is ripping to shreds. The Intelligence agencies are concerned that if the photos President Obama won’t release get out it will be detrimental to our forces abroad, as does the military establishment. The photos in question in tandem with those already released previously to date, tell a tale of denigrating behavior and derogatory treatment of prisoners at best. These are of the ‘enhanced techniques with local improvisations as would be the norm when you open the door to allow humans to treat other humans like trash. This is the very proud work of the former Vice President of these United States of America he swears to the almighty above that he was stridently trying to protect.

This is the same proud work which the present administration has no stomach to prosecute and even less will to investigate. However, the continued efforts on the part of a very public Cheney, untraditionally attacking the current administration’s policies may inadvertently motivate the wrong forces of change looking to be protective of the President. Those previously desiring to leave old dogs buried where they lie may find the only way of shutting down the former Vice Presidential vindication tour will be to prove that the Vice President in authorizing the use of torture did so seeking to obtain a false connection from Iraq to the attack on 9/11. They may find that to be enough probable cause to consider a special prosecutor investigation after all. The former Vice President and all those involved in the war crime of water boarding and authorizing, implementing and using other torture techniques will get the kind of attention they truly deserve.

© 2009, agentleman.