The Associated Press:

Dick Cheney refuses to be a has-been.

The former vice president’s voice appears to carry even more weight than it did in the waning days of the Bush administration.

Some people want him to be quiet and disappear. Others are cheering the public relations tour that Cheney began halfway through President Barack Obama’s first 100 days, defending the Bush administration’s harsh interrogation tactics and other anti-terrorism policies.

Vice presidents typically fade away quietly.

Not Cheney.

I love how the AP cannot quite hide its anti-Cheney and anti-Bush views in those first five paragraphs. “Some people want him to be quiet and disappear.” Right. Some as in the Associates Press’ editorial staff. (more…)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has had enough of all the questions related to her accusation that the CIA lied to her, and to Congress in general about waterboarding:

In her first public comments since her accusation last week, Pelosi attempted to tamp down a story that she fueled and now Republicans say she either has to prove or apologize for.| MORE ›

Here is your daily link mess. Don’t know what ‘link mess’ is? Well, scroll down:

My good friend and one of the best conservative members of the blogosphere, Jules Crittenden, analyzes Glenn Greenwald’s interview with “the UN’s torture guy.” Go read Jules’ analysis – he completely destroys Greenwald.

The Caucus blog talks about John Murtha.| MORE ›

‘The Department of Defense — on the heels of the firestorm over the release of Bush-era memos on CIA interrogation techniques — said Thursday it plans to make public at least 44 photos depicting potentially abusive treatment of detainees at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan,’ Fox News reports.| MORE ›

A majority of Americans say they disapprove of the way Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi handled the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques debate. Rasmussen reports:

Last week, Pelosi attempted to respond to allegations that she learned of the use of waterboarding in September 2002 during a CIA briefing of congressional leaders.| MORE ›

You’d almost feel sorry for her:

Nancy Pelosi didn’t cry foul when the Bush administration briefed her on “enhanced interrogation” of terror suspects in 2002, but her team was locked and loaded to counter hypocrisy charges when the “torture” memos were released last week.| MORE ›

Whether or not you agree with Steve Schippert’s take on President Obama’s announcement that he will release photos of terrorist suspects after and while they were interrogated by American forces, the angry tone of the post could be a clear sign of things to come and of how at least some will interpret Obama’s decision:

The assault is relentless.| MORE ›

When I first heard that Spaniards were considering launching an investigation into allegations that six senior Bush administration officials—including ex-Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales—gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, I thought to myself: “there we go again.| MORE ›