Former Vice President Dick Cheney
Washington (CNN) — A defiant former Vice President Dick Cheney doubled-down on his defense of the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA on detainees in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Sunday, saying, “I would do it again in a minute.”
Critics of the interrogation tactics — detailed in a recently released controversial Senate report — contend they should be considered torture and regretted. But Cheney said there is no “moral equivalence” between the terrorists’ actions and the CIA’s interrogation techniques.
“With respect to trying to define that as torture, I come back to the proposition torture was what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11,” Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “There’s no comparison between that and what we did with the respect to enhanced interrogation.”
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The former vice president also dispelled the report’s findings that then-President George W. Bush was unaware of the techniques taking place, saying that Bush authorized the tactics, and the report detailing otherwise is a “lie.”
“We got the authorization from the President and authorization from the Justice Department to go forward with the program,” Cheney said. “It worked.”
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I can only say that power has its own psychy. And revenge though not approved in moral standards is the instinctive behavior of persons who think like Mr. Cheney.
Bush and his his team led by Chenny went too far in showing the world that what they can do when they are poked. Any body can see that world is not more safe than 2001, as claimed by the people authorizing torture.
I would have much appreciated the old man if he has admitted the past wrong doing.
Those who donot admit donot amend.