i read on huffington post this morning that dick cheney says “it offends the hell out of him” that obama has allowed an investigation into cheney’s torture after saying some months ago that he wouldn’t investigate.

this is what bugs me about the media in this day and age. first of all, the department of justice is a separate entity from that of the executive office. secondly, just because obama said he wasn’t opening an investigation does not mean that when new details emerge that this wouldn’t change obama’s mind.

i think cheney’s worried, or at least as worried as the devil can be. if i believed in a biblical devil, i would say that cheney is he. i have never had such a feeling of revulsion wrapped in disgust as i do when i even see a picture of cheney’s face.

as i discussed the impeachment of bill clinton with my husband back in the day, at first i was really pissed and thought it was definitely a partisan witch hunt. it was. no doubt about that. however, clinton did break the law. he lied and did it in the most public of ways. many democrats supported the case against clinton. the media jumped on board. it was partisan, sure, but justified. republicans hated/hate clinton.

so…this investigation of cheney and his minion…absolutely justified. this man allowed torture. this man put america at risk. more so than 9/11 ever did. to say that torture kept us safe is ridiculous. it may have allowed for a piece of information to stop an attack (which i doubt) but it allowed thousands more recruits into radical islam. thousands more young islamic militants that hated our way of life before who now have a cause to rally around.

what i would like to know is why the so called ‘liberal mainstream media’ allows cheney to continuously get away with saying that obama promised not to investigate so why is he breaking that promise now. if new information has come to light or the independent justice department decided to investigate…what is that to do with obama’s former promise? it invalidates it.

had the senate said it would promise not to investigate after clinton said he ‘did not have sexual relations with that girl’ should they be held to it after it came to light that he did? no…

i guess i’m just sick of the ‘i can do and get away with anything’ attitude of the bush administration. why should they be above the law?

i do agree with dick on one point: i don’t think the lower level cia agents should be persecuted for a crime that was authorized, sanctioned and given a blessing by cheney. it should go all the way up to his and his attorney’s door.