Did CHENEY know. The Vice President that is running the CIA DID HE KNOW? The man who gets daily briefings from the CIA, CHENEY What did HE know and when did HE know it?

the saddest thing about both this article and the comments included is the simple fact that americans no longer believe our president when he speaks. i don't mean to sound like an idealistic civics student, but it is deeply disturbing that we as a nation have such little respect for our leader. don't get me wrong, he has done very little to earn that respect or trust. all i'm saying is that it is a sad indictment on our president, our government and our current national psyche.

This is Bush being Bush in the most transparent way imaginable. The clown couldn't tell the truth if his or anyone else's life depended on it. Bush is gutter, Texas trash and the worst scum the country has ever had at the helm. It's never too late to impeach a chronic, inveterate, psychopathic liar.

Despite his vigorous defense of his past conduct, Kiriakou says he now views what he did as torture and says that he would not recommend those tactics going forward. “We don’t need enhanced techniques to get that nugget of information,” he said in an interview with Matt Lauer this morning on The Today Show.

Lauer asked Kiriakou where the permission was given to carry out torture. “Was the White House involved in that decision?” Lauer asked. “Absolutely,” Kiriakou said, adding:

This isn’t something done willy nilly. It’s not something that an agency officer just wakes up in the morning and decides he’s going to carry out an enhanced technique on a prisoner. This was a policy made at the White House, with concurrence from the National Security Council and Justice Department.

Lauer then referenced an earlier interview he did with President Bush, in which Bush said he was assured by the Justice Department “we were not torturing.” “I disagree,” Kiriakou said.

I actually believe Dumbya when he says he doesn't know anything about the tapes. Just consider history: The neocons let Bush run because they wanted a simpleton as President who wouldn't interfere with their war, oil and power-grabbing plans. The simple-minded boob Dumbya, who has been effectively brain-dead from booze and drugs for most of his life, has proved to be the perfect choice. To control this dolt, the neocons made sure that there would be a suitable, megalomaniac puppet master and shadow president, hence Cheney. It still remains to be learned just how much of what has happened over the past 7 years Dumbya understands. Probably not much.

Bush not knowing what goes on in his administration? That's news to me.

Another cover-up like every administration has. Reagan didn't know anything. Now Bush gets his chance. Come on! The president is briefed on everything critical and top secret. Are we supposed to believe he doesn't know what is going on at the CIA?

Oh, yeah - I believe him. How can you not believe that honest, sincere face? In a rat's behind. He couldn't tell the truth if he had to. GWB is the biggest liar, crook, and war monger in the world - not the country - the world. He is probably the one who set everything in motion along with his croney, robot, heartless Dick Cheney. How can one die from heart trouble,when he has no heart.

Of course Bush knows nothing about this, he doesn't know anything about anything else, either.

I don't believe anything this guy has to say. It's really sad.

You would like to at least assume that sometimes you can believe your president. But this guy has cried wolf so often, been caught lying so often .. This man has no credibility.

As far as impeaching him. I was pretty supportive of that until I heard Bill Clinton talk about it a couple of weeks ago in an interview.

He said that Tip O'neal had the grounds to impeach Reagan over the Iran Contra thing which went against Constitutional government. This administration is also susceptible to impeachment where they've also stepped outside the bounds of our Constitutional Government.

But the Democratic Congress, both times put the future of our country as a Constitutional Government ahead of the short term Political Gain that could be achieved by going for Impeachment. That I believe is VERY important point.

Unfortunately their Republican counterparts had no qualms about impeaching for lying about a B--J for short term political gains.

Big Reason No. 1 for me leaving the Republican Party. I'd kinda want this country to last long enough for my Grand-Kids to enjoy it.

Alex H. just might be on the right track. Every master needs his puppet and Cheney is a master of manipulation, deceit, and trickery.

Who cares if terrorists were being tortured. How else is the US going to extract information from these gutless cowards? Are we supposed to try & reason with these animals? These people want to to destroy all of us. For all you people who think torturing these criminals is a bad idea, I have one word for you wimps, WAAAH

"GWB is the biggest liar, crook, and war monger in the world - not the country - the world." Seriously its time we all stopped blaming the one person who was put on this earth probably as Jesus reincarnated. Sometimes I think people who hate him, really hate themselves because they can't cope with the idea of someone so holy leading us into a new worl order...I dont know about you but its time to stop the insanity and start the party.

prezzzident "Bushed" wouldn't know the truth if it hit him over the head...and neither would Cheney.

"GWB is the biggest liar, crook, and war monger in the world - not the country - the world." Seriously its time we all stopped blaming the one person who was put on this earth probably as Jesus reincarnated. Sometimes I think people who hate him, really hate themselves because they can't cope with the idea of someone so holy leading us into a new worl order...I dont know about you but its time to stop the insanity and start the party.

Who cares if terrorists were being tortured. How else is the US going to extract information from these gutless cowards? Are we supposed to try & reason with these animals? These people want to to destroy all of us. For all you people who think torturing these criminals is a bad idea, I have one word for you wimps, WAAAH

Our President is a liar. Plain and simple.

Funny how leaders of the GOP including Bush and his people all have demensia. No wonder this country is in deep doo doo. We need leaders who can remember important matters. I think there's another reason for all these memory lapses.

G.W.Bush makes NIXON look like an honest man. This is what you get when you vote for an alcoholic, coke-head like GWB - all the money is gone, the country is a wreck, and he conveniently doesn't remember anything.

His first recollection . . . I guess this leaves room for he was drunk and blacked out when he first learned that the tapes existed and, later, that they'd been destroyed. Perhaps a slip of the tongue, but, more likely not.