CHENEY muscles dipshit punk clown congressional whores: AT THIS TIME MINN. FBI KNEW THAT CHENEY TORTURED DR GORDON--FBI witness

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Cheney's Campaign To Keep Lawmakers In Line On Torture


By Zachary Roth - June 3, 2009, 12:11PM


The Washington Post reports today that, during 2005, Dick Cheney sat in on several of those CIA torture briefings, in an effort to persuade wavering lawmakers to keep backing the torture program.

The news doesn't really come as a shock -- indeed, some close observers had already guessed that the then-veep was involved in the briefings. But it does add to the picture of Cheney embarking during the middle years of the Bush administration on a focused, stealthy campaign to make sure the US didn't give up what he saw as its right to torture.

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tommy:


If you knew the facts and my timeline from my OBSTRUCTED 47 PAGE US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINT you would know that CHENEY HAD ALREADY MURDERED DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF RICHARD GORDON using a "slow death ray" called a DARPA DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON manufactured by RAYTHEON.

THERE WAS NO INTERROGATION OF RICH GORDON.

NO VIDEOTAPE.

NO RATIONAL REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP TO "USING ENHANCED INTERROGATION METHODS" to prevent a terroristic attack.

MY FACTS ALSO SHOW CAUSE THAT MINNEAPOLIS AND SIOUX FALLS, SD, FBI had knowledge that there "cooperating, coerced, intimidated, stalked, assaulted, extorted" witness DR MARK GORDON had also "been monitored in his home with pin hole spy cameras" and also FRIED WITH DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPON.

BOB MUELLER STOOD DOWN.

BOB MUELLER SILENTLY SANCTIONED THE FOLLOWING CRIMES COMMITTED BY CHENEY:

----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A PATRIOT ACT CRIME OF VIOLENCE;

----CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A FED CRIME OF VIOLENCE;

----CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A COOPERATING POLYGRAPHED FRIGHTENED WITNESS NAMED MARK GORDON (after FBI AND CHENEY MURDERED RICH GORDON, Mark's brother, former chief of staff for SD US SEN TOM DASCHLE);


MUELLER PUNK was...according to his US SEN JUD COMM TESTIMONY....was...uh..."just following FBI protocol" to tip off Cheney that he knew about his crimes...and also...to let CHENEY KNOW THAT BOB WAS NOT OPENING A PRE. INQUIRY AND WOULD OBSTRUCT JUSTICE...to the applause of his corrupt, drug dealing, babyburning, punk clown idiotic field agents?!

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There's evidence that Cheney's efforts paid off by keeping GOP members in line on torture. For instance, according to the Post, the first briefing in which Cheney was involved occurred in March 2005 -- two days after the New York Times ran a detailed report on harsh interrogation techniques.
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tommy:




Look at the facts and my timeline.


March 2005 was also AFTER CHENEY AND GOSS AND MUELLER AND SF FBI COUNTERINTEL PUNK STEVEN PLUTA colluded to violate my civil liberties when they got a bogus FISA order to "break into my home to surgically install an RFID MIND CONTROL TORTURE CHIP" that is still in my skull?

Then...AFTER I CALLED FORMER LOWLIFE PUNK STEPHEN MULLINS AT SD US ATTY....Cheney--Mueller--Goss--Dumsfield enjoyed the mind control torture of Bean in his home...using the chip and a directed energy weapon to fry me with microwave radiation...in pursuit of SNUFFING OUT MY LAWSUIT, AND TESTIMONY AFTER I SENT A TEN PAGE MEMO TO US SEN CHARLES GRASSLEY AT US SEN JUD COMM.


MR HOLDER...knows...and so did MUKASYKIKE...that...this is and was a prime facie case for TAMPERING WITH A DOJ WITNESS AND US SEN JUD COMM WITNESS?


NO CHARGES from HOUSE NIGGER PUNK HOLDER WHO IS TOO BUSY SITTING ON THE PORCH EATING CHICKEN WINGS AND WATERMELON like the darky punk Uncle Tom that he is...and always will be.
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One of the lawmakers briefed, Senate Intelligence chair Pat Roberts, had at the time been indicating he might support calls for an investigation of the techniques used on high-level detainees. But it looks like just two days after sitting down with the veep, Roberts announced his opposition to such a probe.

And at another briefing, this one in October 2005, Cheney tried to persuade Sen. John McCain to back off an amendment that aimed to ban practices like waterboarding, and that had broad support in the Senate. (In the end, the measure passed, though in a weakened form.)

This all jibes with what we know about those classified CIA memos which Cheney claims will, if declassified, show that harsh interrogation techniques produced intelligence that saved lives.


Those memos, we now know, were dated July 13, 2004, and June 1, 2005.

As former TPMmuckraker Spencer Ackerman has pointed out, those dates are significant.




OK, July 13, 2004. What had happened then?


Two important developments.


First, in May, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson had completed his review of how the interrogation program worked in practice, a still-classified document that appears to have found the agency had exceeded the boundaries demarcated for it by the 2002 Office of Legal Counsel memo that gave the program legal sanction.

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tommy:



The above is a reference to the SOUTH DAKOTA MURDERS, MAIMINGS, AND TORTURE OF FBI WITNESSES AND DOJ COMPLAINANTS like THOMAS S. BEAN, AND DR MARK GORDON, LEROY ROGERS (who MUELLER AT FBI HQ TARGETED FOR ASSASINATION USING THE INFO FROM THE FBI 302 INTERVIEW FORM FROM MY FATHER, DR DAVID W. BEAN).


BOB MUELLER...does not like lawsuits naming Bob Mueller and his punk agent scum.

Mueller did not want RCMP ARREST WARRANT FOR MIAMI FBI AGENT TERRY NELSON'S MONTANA DRUG PIPELINE with MIKE CHUCKIE PETERS whacking out witnesses as the FBI HITMAN, THAT BOB MUELLER SENT AFTER ME ON 4--26--04 in Luverne, Mn at a fast food restaurant.

BOB scripts his hearings with LEAHY PUNK AND CONYERS FAGGOT.

BOB cannot handle the real cross examination that I PREPARED FOR HIM IN THE MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF HEARING IN SIOUX FALLS, SD, FED COURT.

THAT HEARING AND MOTION was not completed by me....because....FBI MADE SURE I WAS BEING TORTURED AT THE TIME, AND...FBI MADE SURE ALL CONTACTS WITH LAWYERS WERE CHILLED WITH FBI BADGES USED TO SLANDER BEAN AT LAW FIRMS.

That's how Mueller killed the problem...and that is why....MUELLER DOES NOT SLEEP AT NIGHT, DESPITE THE FACT I GAVE FBI A CHANCE TO TAKE THE DEMAND LETTER ON TOP OF THE CIVIL SUIT to avoid exposure.

TURNS OUT MUELLER swindled 150 million from US SEN APP...and...stalled the settlement (ten offers from me to SD US ATTY) SO HE COULD STEAL THE INTEREST ON THE 150, 000, 000$ that Bob and his staff...continually steal using the interest to play the stock market...perhaps?

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And second, in June, the new OLC chief, Jack Goldsmith, revoked that 2002 memoranda, which sent Cheney legal adviser David Addington into a sputtering rage.




And:



Next, June 1, 2005. No, not merely a birthday present for me. That's the day after new OLC chief Steven Bradbury had released the final of his three May 2005 memos that reauthorized the CIA's interrogation program -- rulings that found, among other things, that waterboarding (which the CIA says it had not performed since 2003) did not cause "severe physical pain." All the memos, taken together, determined the CIA's interrogation program was, in every material respect, legal. But it's likely that Cheney recognized this wouldn't be the end of the debate on torture -- either internally, or with Congress and the Courts. Having material from the CIA -- especially a CIA helmed by his ally, Porter Goss -- arguing for the need for the program's continuation would be powerful ammunition for any bureaucratic fight.



In other words, the evidence suggests that Cheney commissioned those memos at specific times in order to bolster his position in fighting efforts to crack down on torture. And today's report in the Post suggests another element of Cheney's campaign -- directly lobbying key lawmakers, at critical times, about what he saw as the vital importance of the program.

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tommy:



I WOULD NOT CALL EXTORTION AND MURDER THREATS FROM CHENEY...."lobbying Congress"....ya know?


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Of course, Senators Carl Levin and Russ Feingold have both said they've seen the CIA memos at issue, and that they don't support Cheney's claim that enhanced interrogation got results. Rather, said Levin, they discuss the program for high-value detainees as a whole, which included harsh techniques but also other methods.

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Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques


No Indication of Whether Waterboarding Was Discussed




By Paul Kane and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 3, 2009



Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.

The Cheney-led briefings came at some of the most critical moments for the program, as congressional oversight committees were threatening to investigate or even terminate the techniques, according to lawmakers, congressional officials, and current and former intelligence officials.

Cheney's role in helping handle intelligence issues in the Bush administration -- particularly his advocacy for the use of aggressive methods and warrantless wiretapping against alleged terrorists -- has been well documented. But his hands-on role in defending the interrogation program to lawmakers has not been previously publicized.


The CIA made no mention of his role in documents delivered to Capitol Hill last month that listed every lawmaker who had been briefed on "enhanced interrogation techniques" since 2002. For meetings that were overseen by Cheney, the agency told the intelligence committees that information about who oversaw those briefings was "not available."

The revelations do not shed light on whether top Democrats, as Republicans contend, were aware that waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning, was being used on terrorism suspects as early as the fall of 2002. That discussion has dominated Capitol Hill since last month, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was not present at any of the briefings that included Cheney, accused the agency of intentionally misleading her in a 2002 briefing about the use of waterboarding.


An official who witnessed one of Cheney's briefing sessions with lawmakers said the vice president's presence appeared calculated to give additional heft to the CIA's case for maintaining the program. Cheney left it to the professional briefers to outline the interrogation practices, while he mounted an impassioned defense of the program.

"This is a really important issue for the security of the United States," the official recalled Cheney saying.

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tommy:


NO.

DEAD EYE DICK MENT TO SAY, THAT...UH....BEAN WROTE A SIGNED AFFADAVIT POINTING THE PUNK MURDERING, DRUG DEALING, LYING FBI FERRIES to search the CALEA INTERFACE AT THE TELECOMM PROVIDERS MAIN FRAME COMPUTER so they had evidence of the wiretapping used by "NSA TSP MERCS--WHITTINGTON--NSA 902ND" to facilitate CHENEY'S MURDER OF A PREGNANT CHRISTIAN HOUSEWIFE NAMED CHRISTINA MOORE.


CHENEY TORTURED ME...BECAUSE I SIGNED THE AFFADAVIT UNDER PENALTY OF PROSECUTION...AND...I ALWAYS OFFERED TO TAKE AN FBI POLYGRAPH that MUELLER KNEW WAS UNNECESSARY because...FBI ALREADY WAS INTENT ON OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WITH JOHNNY SUTTON AT W.D.OF TEXAS US ATTY.

SUTTON recently got fired and or resigned after HOLDER ORDERED HIS POLYGRAPH EXAM....without SUBPOENAING SUTTON IN A SPECIAL GRAND JURY?????

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The CIA declined to comment on why Cheney's presence in some meetings was left out of the records.


One senior intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the names of individual briefers are omitted in all cases -- they do not appear in any of the public documents that describe congressional briefings. In at least some cases, he added, the identity of the briefer was never recorded in the agency's records.

For all but seven of the 40 meetings listed, however, the documents outlined which agency led the briefing and which provided support. And on at least five occasions, they spelled out that then-CIA Director Michael V. Hayden led the classified meetings.

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TOMMY:



Read above comment.

HAYDEN AND MUELLER AND GOSS AND DUMSFIELD, AND ADDINGTON, AND CHENEY are all guilty of committing overt acts as part of the conspiracy to MURDER CHRISTINA MOORE, RICH GORDON, MARK DEFENBAUGH, JOHN KABIESEMAN, and attempted murders of targets who became targets when FBI USED INTEL FROM FBI 302 INTERVIEWS so they could torture my attorneys (OMAHA ATTY LEROY ROGERS, JOHN KABIESEMAN, JON VAN PATTEN, etc.).


HAYDEN dirty on TITLE III FELONIES used to find SIGINT BY NSA 902ND...who fed info to AUSTIN LAWYER WHITTINGTON who was the "cutout".

WHITTINGTON LATER SHOT BY DRUNKEN PUNK CHENEY at South Texas quail hunt.

That is the story...that LEAHY PUNK, AND CONYERS FAGGOT are too afraid of...while I stick my neck out everyday....?
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Since leaving office in January, Cheney has mounted a vigorous public defense of the interrogation practices. Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, he said CIA officials approached the White House in 2002 with the request to use harsher techniques such as waterboarding.

"We all approved it. I'm a strong believer in it. I think it was the right thing to do," said Cheney, who is now pushing for the declassification of the information gained from the detainees who were subjected to the most brutal techniques.

Several members of Congress who took part in the Cheney meetings declined to comment on them, citing secrecy concerns. But there was little doubt that he was leading the charge on the issue.


"His office was ground zero. It was his office you dealt with at the end of the day," recalled Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who jousted with Cheney over the system of interrogations.

One of the most critical Cheney-led briefings came in late October 2005, when the vice president and Porter J. Goss, then director of the CIA, read Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) into the program on the interrogation methods, according to congressional and intelligence sources.

One knowledgeable official described the meeting as contentious.


Cheney and Goss, with other CIA officials present, tried to persuade the former Vietnam POW to back off an anti-torture amendment that had already won the support of 90 senators.

The McCain amendment would have ended practices such as waterboarding by forbidding "cruel, degrading and inhumane" treatment of detainees. The CIA had not used waterboarding since 2003, but the White House sought to maintain the ability to employ it.

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tommy:


THE ISSUE IS USE OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS to murder DASCHLE'S EX CHIEF OF STAFF, RICHARD GORDON...who died of a brain tumor.

DR MARK GORDON, also fried...after FBI HARASSED, EXTORTED, DEFAMED AT JOBSITE, TRASHED HIS MEDICAL CARREER...DIRECTED A LATINO GANGBANGING CONVICT TO SPIT IN DR GORDON'S FACE AT AN OK CITY GAS STATION, while FBI WATCHED AND VIDEOTAPED to use in a bogus frame up malicious prosecution under the heading of a HATE CRIME AGAINST SPICS.

FBI had Gordon's tape when "me and Mark" repeated the dialogue from THE JERKY BOYS COMEDY ALBUM.

THE ISSUE IS NOT WATERBOARDING.

THE ISSUE IS FBI'S OPERATION SLAMMER USED TO CREATE "going postal MK ULTRA nuts"...like I am...after being MIND CONTROLLED, TORTURED, STALKED, HARASSED...ETC...ALL BECAUSE I TRIED TO STOP FBI FROM BLOWING UP THE MURRAY BUILDING WHERE THE CHILDREN WERE COLORING BOOKS at the Daycare center.

IT'S CALLED FALSE FLAG.

IT'S CALLED THE SHOCK DOCTRINE.

SEE, HOLDER NIGGER's memo "Trentadues and Trentadon'ts" when he tried to OBSTRUCT THE CRUCIAL TRENTADUE DEPOSITION OF TERRY NICHOLS who has already named the FBI HANDLER RUNNING MCVEIGH AND NICHOLS as the MK ULTRA PATSIES AT OK CITY.

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In the meetings with lawmakers, Cheney was adamant that the enhanced interrogations were needed to preserve national security, according to two participants. He advocated briefing more lawmakers about the program, against the wishes of National Security Council officials who sought to inform only the top members of the intelligence committees.

Lawmakers at times challenged Cheney and CIA officials about the legality of the program and pressed for specific results that would show whether the techniques worked. In response, the CIA briefers said that half of the agency's knowledge about al-Qaeda's plans and structure had been obtained through the interrogations.


Before the McCain briefing, Cheney met with a friendlier audience, his longtime friends Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who oversaw the Pentagon's annual spending bill, to which the McCain amendment was attached. Cochran said yesterday that it was the first time he had been given a full description of what waterboarding entailed.

"I found the conversation with the vice president to be very candid, straightforward, helpful," Cochran said.

CIA records indicate that another briefing -- for which the briefer's name is "not available" -- was given to Senate GOP leaders on Nov. 1, 2005. That was the same day Cheney made a regular appearance at the weekly Tuesday luncheon for Senate Republicans. Cheney usually engaged only in brief, quiet asides with senators at the lunches. But at this meeting -- the day before The Washington Post published a detailed account of the CIA's secret overseas prison system -- Cheney rose to speak, and the room was cleared of all staff.

He discussed the value of the interrogation program and the information gleaned by using the harsh techniques, according to numerous contemporaneous media accounts.

Cheney's briefings on interrogations began in the winter of 2005 as the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Sen. John D. Rockefeller III (W.Va.) and Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), publicly advocated a full-scale investigation of the tactics used against top al-Qaeda suspects.



On March 8, 2005 -- two days after a detailed report in the New York Times about interrogations -- Cheney gathered Rockefeller, Harman and the chairmen of the intelligence panels, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), according to current and former intelligence officials. Weeks earlier, Roberts had given public statements suggesting possible support for the investigation sought by Rockefeller. But by early March 2005, Roberts announced that he opposed a separate probe, and the matter soon died.


Cheney's efforts to sway Congress toward supporting waterboarding went beyond secret meetings in Washington. In July 2005, he sent David S. Addington, his chief counsel at the time, to travel with five senators -- four of them opponents of the CIA interrogation methods -- to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On the trip, Sen. Graham urged Addington to put the interrogations at secret prisons and the use of military tribunals into a stronger constitutional position by pushing legislation through Congress, rather than relying on executive orders and secret rulings from Justice Department lawyers.


Subsequent court rulings would challenge the legality of the system, and Justice Department lawyers were privately drafting new rules on interrogations. Addington dismissed the views of Graham, who had been a military lawyer.

"I've got all the authority I need right here," Addington said, pulling from his coat a pocket-size copy of the Constitution, according to the senator, suggesting there was no doubt about the system's legal footing.

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tommy:



HOW COME ADDINGTON HAS NOT BEEN SUBPOENAED AND GRILLED USING MY FACTS?




ANSWER: PAT LEAHY is a gutless, sitting on the fence, dumbfucking pussy...who is and always was...TOTALLY MISLEAD BY HIS STAFF, did all he could to "make all hearings scripted and obtuse" with "no ARTICULATION OF SPECIFIC PERSONAL PRONOUNS" LIKE:


----Thomas S. Bean

----DR MARK GORDON

----RICHARD GORDON

----CHRISTINA MOORE, See, MY AFFADAVIT THAT MUELLER OBSTRUCTED...no polygraph in the MURDER OF AN ENRON WITNESS MURDERED BY CHENEY--HAYDEN--NSA 902ND SIGINT--WHITTINGTON--NSA TSP MERCS--NATHAN GRIFFITH, PHIL THE NARC, ROBERT MCNAUGHTON...etc?

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Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.