Dick Cheney, Ahmed Chalabi Contemplated Value Of Iraqi Oil To U.S., David Frum Writes

The story then continues with John Murtha's role & intersects with the "Nancy Pelosi was briefed by the CIA on waterboard­ing/'No, I Wasn't'"-s­tory (remember that?). It appears that Murtha was used by the CIA & BushCo to deceive the 'Gang of 8' and Congress about the waterboard­ing/tortur­e. With this story, we get some insight into how Cheney got all of his & Bush's crimes past Congressio­nal oversight (through his knowledge of how congressio­nal subcommitt­ees operated, from his earlier stint as a congressman­n).

Here is a background clip of the person that Marcy Wheeler/em­ptywheel references­, Greg Sargent, who in this clip is being interviewe­d by Rachel Maddow about the Pelosi-CIA story.

There's a part 1 to the clip, which is the lead-in where Rachel summarizes the situation before she gets to Greg Sargent.

I wish I could say that it's all in the past, and that we should do as Obama insists, "Look forward, not back", but we can't because it's an ongoing effort.  You can't go forward until you've examined what happened and make the changes necessary for it not happening again.  One of Cheney's architects for all of this was David Addington.  When arch-rightwinger Jim DeMint left the Senate for the rightwing think tank  the Heritage Foundation, David Addington joined him there.
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