A defiant ####### Cheney defends CIA’s brutal interrogation program

[Karee 4,190]

A defiant former vice president ####### Cheney ceded no ground Sunday in his defense of the United States’ brutal interrogation of terrorist suspects, saying he is confident that the program protected American lives.

“We’ve avoided another mass-casualty attack against the United States,” Cheney told interviewer Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press. “We did capture bin Laden. We did capture an awful lot of the senior guys of al-Qaeda who were responsible for that attack on 9/11.”

“I’d do it again in a minute,” he added.

The former vice president’s remarks were part of a vigorous pushback against a report about a five-year investigation released last week by the Senate Intelligence Committee that described the violent methods used on CIA detainees.

Cheney rejected the idea that waterboarding and other tactics used in an attempt to glean intelligence amounted to torture.

“There’s this notion that somehow there’s moral equivalence between what the terrorists did and what we do,” he said. “And that’s absolutely not true. We were very careful to stop short of torture.”

Cheney repeatedly said that the techniques used were authorized by President George W. Bush and sanctioned by the Justice Department.

He called the suggestion that Bush was not fully aware of the program “a flat-out lie.”

“This man knew what we were doing,” Cheney said. “He authorized it. He approved of it.”

The former vice president shrugged off questions by Todd about the large share of detainees who were mistakenly swept up into the program.

“I’m more concerned with bad guys that got out and released than I am with a few that were innocent,” Cheney said

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/14/a-defiant-#######-cheney-defends-cias-brutal-interrogation-program/

[Karee 4,190]

Thank god Cheney's name was censored out. I can sleep well tonight knowing that no children will be harmed by the offensive nature of the nickname for Richard. The world is a better place.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Maybe "Dark Helmut" should be given the opportunity to experience water-boarding first-hand?

I can certainly admire and respect the reaction of ex-POW and torture-victim Sen. John McCain to the CIA torture report:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/cia-torture-report-senator-mccain-reaction-27476773

[eieio 1,594]

“We’ve avoided another mass-casualty attack against the United States,”

This is what the "torture" protesters are really upset about.

[OriZ 3,157]

Tell me if your wife and kids were in danger you would not torture someone to get the info you need. Blah.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Cheney is delusional. Always has been, always will be.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Tell me, if my wife and kids were in danger, would it be ok to torture your wife to get information, even if she didn't possess any?

Tell me if your wife and kids were in danger you would not torture someone to get the info you need. Blah.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I find it fascinating that he, of all people, should defend torture of any kind, being that he was allegedly tortured during his time as a POW.

Cheney is delusional. Always has been, always will be.

Edited December 15, 2014 by JohnR!

[decocker 7,198]

This is what the "torture" protesters are really upset about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

[Karee 4,190]

I find it fascinating that he, of all people, should defend torture of any kind, being that he was allegedly tortured during his time as a POW.

I think you're getting your politicians mixed up. Cheney was never a POW. John MCCain was a POW.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I sure did. I need to ask my MSL teacher to go over that chapter again. Thanks!

I think you're getting your politicians mixed up. Cheney was never a POW. John MCCain was a POW.

[Karee 4,190]

I sure did. I need to ask my MSL teacher to go over that chapter again. Thanks!

No problem. I'm writing off all these free lessons I'm giving you on my 2014 taxes as charitable contributions.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Please do. I would give you an affidavit to that effect but officially I don't exist since I entered the US without inspection and I'm living off free stuff for having voted for Obama several times in the past elections.

No problem. I'm writing off all these free lessons I'm giving you on my 2014 taxes as charitable contributions.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Of course he'd defend it. He's not going to send himself up the river now is he.

When someone is so deluded, they aren't going to turn away from that. They're just going to repeat their delusions more forcefully in the hope that if they tell the same litres enough times that people will believe.

Sadly it does seem to work.

Personally I think Cheney ought to be slopping out a prison cell in the Hague but sadly we can't always get what we want.

He's a disgraceful excuse for a human being.

Edited December 15, 2014 by Hail Ming!

[Karee 4,190]

When someone is so deluded, they aren't going to turn away from that. They're just going to repeat their delusions more forcefully in the hope that if they tell the same litres enough times that people will believe.

Glad to see you admit that. That's the first step.