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.
File photo, Dick Cheney speaking, 03/19/09. (photo: Matthew Cavanaugh/EPA/Corbis)
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It is this very kind of thing that destroys my faith in America as the upholder of just values for all. Should we all be furious about this affair...from top to bottom? You bet your sweet bippy! Should we demand that these men be brought to justice? That, my friends, does not even rate an answer.
Any one who defends and supports these criminals should perhaps be made to wear "the scarlet letter" for all to see.
How to interpret "who'd done what we asked them to do" is the crux of the issue. Robert Parry interprets it to mean "to produce the legal opinion we asked them to produce." Cheney rebuttal would be that what "we'd asked them to do" was produce a legal opinion." Though there is information that supports Parry's interpretation of a sequence of events over years, Cheney's comments on ABC do not constitute the smoking-gun admission he claims,
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