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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/world/dismissing-senate-report-cheney-defends-cia-interrogations.html<snip>
Mr. Cheney, who was a vocal champion of those techniques after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has never accepted the widespread description of them as torture, said he had not read the report that the Intelligence Committee is expected to release on Tuesday. But from news reports about it, he said he had heard nothing to change his mind about the wisdom and effectiveness of the program.
What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it, he said in a telephone interview. I think thats all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.
Mr. Cheney said he never thought the C.I.A. was withholding information from him or the White House about the nature of the program, nor did he think the agency exaggerated the value of the intelligence gained from waterboarding and other techniques. The reported conclusion by the Senate Intelligence Committee that the C.I.A. misled the White House, he added, is just a crock.
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tularetom
(23,664 posts)On the contrary, they told him exactly what he wanted them to.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)on each detainee. They admitted to this. No one can now pretend they were lied to or mislead.
The bush admin. knew what was going on and what was being done. They authorized it. They wanted it. The government tortured people willingly. The government broke the law enthusiastically.
The government committed war crimes because they wanted to commit war crimes. They tortured people because they wanted to torture people.
They knew they'd get away with it. That no one had the decency to hold them accountable.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4583256
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Solly%20Mack/617
2naSalit
(86,528 posts)the day without emerging from the mire of his skewed world.
This is how I would describe him and his legacy....
At least, this is how I will remember him.
johnnyreb
(915 posts)'Cept it looks like more of a slither than a crawl.
The Dick will be crawling out any moment now
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025928158
malaise
(268,913 posts)war criminal of a Dick
It's torture.