I hear Cheney wants more torture memo's released so that americans can see the whole picture.  My guess is that more of the picture would be even more disgusting, in addition if this information gained from torture really prevented some catostrophic attack, I am sure Dick and George would have bragged about it through Robert Novak or some other friendly source.

So what is Cheney up to?  I am starting to think that in his mind he believes that 9/11 could not have been prevented, at least not by following the eneva Convention..  Although Richard Clark seems to think otherwise and certain memos before the attacks also seem to contradict that view.  But if you were Dick Cheney and your incompetence led to thousands of deaths you might go to great lengths to pretend that your mistake was unavoidable.  Sure, if Cheney had not been so busy with his energy task force, and George Bush had not been so concerned with getting in a morning run, 9/11 may not have happened.  But for Cheney the onl way to prevent 9/11 was to torture random Arabs and other Muslims as well.

I guess I am arguing that Cheney was stupid, and letting 9/11 happen made him evil.