Cheney On Hannity

I happened to be flipping through the channels last night (mostly because the Rangers and Caps game was so uninteresting) and I caught a good portion of the Cheney interview on Hannity. Of course Hannity was lobbing softballs right down the middle of the plate, but Cheney made some interesting comments. One of which was that the Obama admin has not declassified memos that were written (that Cheney himself had read) that detail the effectiveness of the techniques discussed in the torture memos released last week. Essentially Cheney's accusation is that the Obama admin cherry-picked memos that only tell half the story (and by far the more gruesome half). Cheney also remarked that he has formally requested the declassification of the other memos which he claimed contained information obtained during the waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation methods that played a crucial role in the preservation of our national security and prevented additional mass casualty attacks on the US.

If this is true, and if the memos containing information like that which Cheney details are released, this is devastating to the credibility of the Obama admin. Cheney is clearly on a mission to right his place in history, which admittedly has fallen off considerably. The bottom line is that we need full disclosure here; if we are going to have a debate on these issues we need to know a lot more than we do now.