11:21 AM EST (due to speaker volume am only able to catch a small part of this...THAT WITHOUT QUOTES AND ESPECIALLY IN PARENTHESIS IS JUST A RAPID NOTE TAKING, PARAPHRASE FOR THE MOST PART)
CHENEY: ...No elections to win or lose, no favors to seek...we understand the complexities...tho administrations & policies have changed - the stakes have not changed...
(missed) (i) would do so again, in the same circumstances
whatever choices he (Obama) makes should not be based on slogans or campaign rhetoric
..not to let 911 be the prelude to something (bigger)....
1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 911 caused everyone to take a 2nd look...
world trade center treated as law enforcement problem...
...911 we could count on support of nearly everyone...
anthrax, training camps in afghanistan,
for me one of the defining experiences came right after 911 itself...security: we have to leave now...a few minutes later i found myself in a fortified...bunker...
watching a coordinated attack from an underground bunker...i reviewed...responsibilities...decided to use every ... to take down their (networks)...
many thousands of troops, two theatres of war...one thing we know is the enemy has ...stayed on the defensive...
dividing line: national security...(what we've done has worked - MY NOTE: Cheney basically seems to be saying, we should continue with previous policies...where is he mentioning any remorse, changes or recognition of need for moral changes?)
article two of constitution...all necessary & appropriate force...
information from the worst could be gained only thru toughest interrogations...
(paraphrase although close to what he is saying: I WAS AND REMAIN IN SUPPORT OF...THESE ENHANCED INTERROGATIONS.)
(paraphrase yet close to what he is saying if not exact: THOSE WHO QUESTIONED TERRORISTS CAN BE PROUD OF THEIR WORK...)
11:35 Cheney seems to be claiming that ONLY the highest level of detainees received these enhanced interrogations? HA...simply read Andy Worthington, Cage Prisoners, Amnesty International, Human rights Watch...Goldsmith, Alfred McCoy, Jane Mayer, Center for Constitutional Rights and the many other lawyers & Experts who have either once been a part of this outrageous part of US history...
...VERY SPARSE APPLAUSE at one part only where he mentions again the lives of americans who hang in the balance...
he is also invoking his fear-approach and using the term "killers and mass murderers" and "ruthless enemies of this country" - "president himself"...(blames obama and those who dissent for what he, cheney, has not done) about what others blame his own group... which - although i choose not to go into this here - seems rather ironic to me and surely will to others who also have followed Cheney thru at least these last six years. (time will tell whether it is the a pot referring to a kettle???) last i can bear to hear...he is saying in essence: why...even when we act lawfully and in good faith - are we given this kind of treatment - ie not protected?
like he has said "these are just words"...so are his - if what many who care most about the constitution & the bill of rights are saying is possibly more objective truth? Try Bill of Rights Defense Committee here
I am leaving much out...the volume here is difficult but what little I am able to hear is all i can stomach!!! U can check out much more later both in terms of the full transcript of this speech as well as the many who have the expertise to analyze and comment on such a speech and whether or not Cheney is known to be thoroughly conversant in history, principles, fact and truth...?
Be sure to see what Prof. Marjorie Cohn, Glenn Greenwald and Robert Parry - who once covered & broke the former Iran/Contra affair - see his independent -Consortium News with many articles by other experts and researchists to see what they will have to say (Pres. of the US National Lawyers Guild) Also, for just one source of English coverage and comments try DAWN, one of the largest Pakistani Citizen's news sources.
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