Human rights groups agree with Cheney

Who would have thought that a human rights group would agree with Dick Cheney on anything?

But, as it turns out, at least three such groups have issued statements in response to the CIA's rejection of Cheney's request to publicly release some interrogation-related memos. And Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law all agree with Cheney that the documents should be released. But not for the same reasons as Cheney.

Here is the statement by Margaret Satterthwaite, faculty director the Center at NYU:

"Like Dick Cheney, we call on the CIA to immediately release these documents. Unlike him, however, we seek their disclosure to further transparency and oversight of an unlawful program. The CIA's arguments of a year ago -- that the documents could not be released because they pertained to an ongoing program -- are no longer valid since the president ordered the program closed in January. The American public deserves to have the full details about this program and the CIA should not block the public's attempt to learn the facts."

Amen.

>> Read all three statements.