Dick Cheney promoting his book, Heart. (photo: Rose Palmisano/The Orange County Register/ZUMA)
07 Apri 14
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Cheney has defended torture techniques so many times that a frustrated
U.S. senator has finally offered to waterboard the former vice
president.
“The accusations are not true,” Cheney told college television station ATV last week. “Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture.”
“If I would have to do it all over again, I would,” he insisted. “The results speak for themselves.”
A report that has been completed by the Senate
Intelligence Committee, however, has found that the CIA misled the
government and misstated the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced
interrogation program. The report concluded
that the CIA lied when it said it had gotten “otherwise unobtainable
intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of
lives.”
Sen. Angus King, who is on the intelligence committee, (I-ME) reacted to Cheney’s comments during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC.
“I was stunned to hear that quote from Vice President
Cheney,” King explained. “If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would
invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go
through what those people went through, one of them a hundred and
plus-odd times.”
“That’s ridiculous to make that claim! This was
torture by anybody’s definition,” he continued. “John McCain says it’s
torture, and I think he’s in a better position to know this than Vice
President Cheney. I was shocked to hear that statement that he just
made.”
“And to say that it was carefully managed, and everybody knew what was going on, that’s absolutely nonsense.”
King concluded: “Sorry to be sort of wound upon this, but I couldn’t believe that quote from Vice President Cheney.”
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