By David Swanson
In case anyone doubted it, ABC News is now reporting that Dick Cheney authorized torture.
An impeachment hearing charging Cheney with authorizing torture would force John McCain to deal publicly and endlessly with his history of first trying to re-criminalize torture and then accepting Bush and Cheney’s public and dictatorial authorization of torture with a signing statement and later applauding a veto of yet another re-banning of torture.
Do the Democrats who place making Obama the next emperor ahead of all other concerns want to aim for a narrow squeaker subject to theft, or would a landslide be acceptable?