Not a surprise that Karl Rove, ‘Bush’s brain’ would have a view of the lead-up to the Iraq war totally out of sync with proven facts.

Chris Hayes discusses the audacity of Cheney’s continued defense of torture with Rachel. Hayes calls for the Obama administration to prosecute rather than ignore acts of torture and the defense of torture and provides some history in his recent article in The Nation.

…thanks to the work of the Church Committee. Chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church in 1975-76, the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities labored for sixteen months to produce a 5,000-page report that is a canonical history of the secret government. Over the past three decades the Church Committee has faded into relative obscurity. (I was somewhat surprised to discover how few people my age had heard of it.) But in the wake of further disclosures of crimes and abuses committed by the Bush administration and the escalating war of words between the CIA and Congress over just how much Congress knew about (and approved) these activities, the specter of the committee has begun to haunt Capitol Hill.

Mostly, the Church Committee is invoked by conservatives as a cautionary tale, a case of liberal overreach that handicapped the nation’s intelligence operations for decades. Dick Cheney bemoaned the fact that his time as President Ford’s chief of staff was “the low point” of presidential authority, thanks to a feckless Congress “all too often swayed by the public opinion of the moment.”

Barton Gellman, author of ‘Angler’ discusses Cheney attack on his former boss for not pardoning Scooter Libby. Libby is widely believed to have fallen on his sword to protect Cheney during the trial regarding the outing of covert agent Valerie Plame. Cheney is willing to bad mouth his former boss to save his friend but he isn’t willing to acknowledge that he is the guilty party to save his friend. He escaped service in Vietnam letting better men fall and he will let his ‘buddy’ take this hit too. What a complete lowlife.

Dick Cheney enters stage four ballsheimers disease

Michael Isikoff says, “…a couple of months ago, just before those interrogation memos were released, I and others had said it was going to be a key test of the Obama presidency‘s commitment to transparency if they disclose those memos.

If they did, it would open the floodgates for a lot of this to come pouring out, and we‘d begin to see the full scope, the full story of the program. But what‘s actually turned out is rather than that – that one disclosure being a big breakthrough, it‘s become trench warfare. Document by document, a fight goes on over it in which the CIA and the intelligence community have pushed back hard.” Read the transcripts here

Dick Cheney doesn’t recall Richard Clarke warning the White House of an imminent terrorist attack months before 9/11, but he hasn’t read his book.

Live from the dark side, Rachel discusses the Cheney media tour phenomenon with Dan Rather. As the mother of a disabled US Marine I really wish Cheney would shut the hell up before he incites even more anti-American furor.