Dick Cheney, enabler of torture

Yesterday, I wrote about yet another piece of evidence that the Bush Administration used selective intelligence to justify its war in Iraq, specifically the fact that a key informer in American custody, a certain al Qaeda official named al-Libi, was known well before the war to be a “fabricator” of information.

For more on this developing story, including a round-up of key reaction from around the blogosphere, see my post on Cheney the torturer at The Reaction.

Following Kevin Drum, I refer to Cheney’s “relentless moral cretinism” and address John McCain’s noble efforts to push an anti-torture bill through Congress — against Cheney’s opposition.