Thursday, December 18, 2008

Levin: Cheney Admitted to Authorizing Torture

You'd think that trying to save the American auto industry and thousands of Michigan jobs would keep a senator so busy that he would have time for nothing else.

But if the senator is Michigan's Carl Levin, you'd be wrong.

That's because the Democratic chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee has also had time in recent days to keep an ear open to what the out-going Bush-Cheney team has been saying on their failure to America tour.

Specifically, Cheney's admission in a televised interview that he authorized water-boarding, a recognized form of torture since at least the Spanish Inquisition.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow heard the interview, too, and called in Levin for an appearance on Wednesday (Dec. 17, 2008)

The rawstory has a story and the video of Levin's appearance. Levin plans to turn over his committee's report to the Obama Justice Department and urged creation of an independent commission, which, he said, could lead to indictments.

That's Levin -- working to save the economy one day and to save America's international reputation the next.

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