Full of Crap

'Former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed the recently released Senate report on CIA interrogation techniques Wednesday, calling it “full of crap,” and a “terrible piece of work” that was “deeply flawed.”

Cheney, speaking on Fox News' “Special Report with Bret Baier,” said some of the controversial techniques used on militants had been previously tested and the interrogations produced results.'

 We are mistaken to think that the results Richard Cheney is so confident he obtained from torture have anything to do with information. If information was that important it would have played a larger role in the months preceding the attacks of 9/11/01. The results he gloats about are the multiple layers of imperial dominance of the middle east. Torture displays that dominance on the bodies of the subject population just as military violence does on the social structure of the target region. That is why the niceties of police work, such as the accurate identification of suspects, are so often ignored. As in the massacre of Lidice, investigation of the fact is overwhelmed by the need to assert power.