Dick Cheney, Asshole of the Day for December 11, 2014
The world reacted with horror. The New York Times called the Senate report on CIA torture "a portrait of depravity."
John McCain said: "The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless."
Dick Cheney, of course, has a different take, telling Fox News' Bret Baier in a Wednesday interview: "The report's full of crap." Crap, of course, is too mild a word for what the report contains. As Vox.com says: "listing every horrifying detail in the Senate Intelligence Committee's summary report on the CIA's torture program would be impossible." They give 16 of the worst details here.
The Daily Edge doesn't often agree with John McCain but he's right when he says the Bush-Cheney torture policies "stained our national honor, did much harm and little good."
As Slate points out, "there's no way Bush and Cheney didn't know what we were doing." And what we were doing included the same "war crimes" for which America hung Japanese soldiers after World War II.
For promoting and supporting these torture policies, and for still emphatically and unapologetically defending them--despite the fact they didn't work!!--Dick Cheney is for the 5th time, Asshole of the Day.
See his previous wins here.