Because he doesn’t want to go to prison, of course!
Finally folks in Congress are starting to respond to the blatant campaign by former VP Dick Cheney to change the debate focus from the patent illegality of torture to the laughable contention that torture works. That and everything should be swept under the rug because some Congressional Democrats were “briefed” by the CIA.
h/t: www.talkingpointsmemo.com
It’s too bad the only person being coopted by Cheney’s points is President Barack Obama. Maybe Obama should take a quick look at the following excerpt from PBS’s The Legacy of War (narrated by the conscience of the Vietnam War and former CBS newsman Walter Cronkite):
