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Dick Cheney

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., former President George W. Bush, and others, listen as former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, during a ceremony where a marble bust of Cheney was unveiled. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

U.S. First Shields Its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them

Glenn Greenwald

- Dec. 4, 2015

With Joe Biden’s praise for Dick Cheney at the unveiling of his Capitol “bust,” the U.S. government signals to the world that it regards itself as exempt from the laws of wars, the Nuremberg prohibition against aggressive invasions, and global prohibitions on torture.

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