Former vice-President Dick Cheney, today, dismissed critics who said the policy amounted to the torture of suspected terrorists, Cheney said the methods were “legal, essential, justified, successful and the right thing to do.” He claims President Obama has weakened the country’s ability to combat al Qaeda and other extremists by eliminating them. [CNN]
The former vice president said U.S. intelligence officers “were trying to prevent future killings” and did not commit torture. But he defended the use of “waterboarding,” which the United States has prosecuted as torture in the past, as a valuable tool used on three top al Qaeda figures.
“In my long experience in Washington, few matters have inspired so much contrived indignation and phony moralizing as the interrogation methods applied to a few captured terrorists,” he said.
Cheney asserted the acts were constitutional. He criticized Obama for closing Guantanamo.
Same old stuff from Cheney.
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