Is Richard Bruce Cheney a War Criminal?

Speaking with a sense of impunity, he casually negated a key line of defense that senior Bush officials had hidden behind for years – that the brutal interrogations were approved by independent Justice Department legal experts who thus gave the administration a legitimate reason to believe the actions were within the law.

However, on 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.

Robert Parry

Cheney Admits to Being War Criminal

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