Cheney and Torture - Turning America Into a Stalinist State

Dick Cheney Admits to Torture Conspiracy

On Sunday, Cheney pronounced himself "a big supporter of waterboarding," a near-drowning technique that has been regarded as torture back to the Spanish Inquisition and that has long been treated by U.S. authorities as a serious war crime, such as when Japanese commanders were prosecuted for using it on American prisoners during World War II.

....However, on Sunday, Cheney acknowledged that the White House had told the Justice Department lawyers what legal opinions to render. In other words, the opinions amounted to ordered-up lawyering to permit the administration to do whatever it wanted.

Cheney in fact fully embraces the political policies of the late communist dictator Joseph Stalin. Cheney useds torture for his own enjoyment(sadism is a common trait among authoritarians) and to illicit false information to cover up the lies he and Bush told the American people, Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link

The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. In fact, no evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime.

Rachel Maddow Calls Out Tea Party Republican Stimulus Hypocrites

This may be the most devastating, and most deserved, piece of political journalism this year.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow calls out the numerous Republican hypocrites who "trashed the stimulus, and voted against it," and then exploited it by bragging to their constituents how great this money would be for jobs and economic development in their communities.

You’ve probably seen a few of these on news shows and blogs like ThinkProgess, FDL and others. But not like this.