Sen. Angus King of Maine is pretty mild-mannered. He’s not exactly a partisan either. While he caucuses with the majority Democrats, he’s technically an independent, and not in the Bernie Sanders/socialist flavor. Sen. King is a centrist more in the mold of his colleague Susan Collins, albeit noticeably to her left. He also serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which has exhaustively studied the “enhanced interrogation techniques” carried out by the Bush/Cheney regime. He’s concluded that these techniques were undeniably torture and he’s tired of listening to Bush’s quail-hunting sidekick try to deny it.
Sen. Angus King, who is on the intelligence committee, (I-ME) reacted to Cheney’s comments during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC.
“I was stunned to hear that quote from Vice President Cheney,” King explained. “If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them a hundred and plus-odd times.”
Of course, Dick Cheney would wet himself before any water was actually applied. He has no personal courage, and avoided combat like the plague when he was young enough to fight. He would never consent to waterboarding or any of the other “techniques” he demanded the intelligence community use on people in our custody and care.
