May 13th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
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If 3,000 Americans had been killed on your watch, in an attack that could have been prevented, perhaps you'd be a little hesitant to accuse anyone else of endangering America. And if you had advocated torture, and the torture produced false information that you used to mislead America into an unwise, unjust and unwarranted war, you might be a tad sheepish about defending the use of torture.
Not Dick Cheney. Mr. Cheney has stepped up his attack on Pres. Obama's security strategy, telling CBS's Bob Schieffer that Obama's refusal to use waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" (i.e., torture) endangers American lives.
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Dick Cheney and the Torture Controversy
May 14th, 2009 - US News
The bar has been set pretty low for what is acceptable in America these days ["GOP Strategists to Cheney: Enough, Already," usnews.com]. If simulating death by drowning (waterboarding) is not torture...
Pelosi: CIA Lied to Me
May 14th, 2009 - ABC News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused CIA briefers today of lying to her and other lawmakers about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding...
Pelosi Accuses CIA of Misleading Congress on Waterboarding
May 14th, 2009 - FOXNews
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused the CIA of misleading Congress about its use of enhanced interrogation techniques used on terror detainees. "Yes I am saying...
'Enhanced interrogations' don't work, ex-FBI agent to tell panel
May 13th, 2009 - CNN
From left: Sens. Lindsey Graham, Sheldon Whitehouse,Patrick Leahy and Dianne Feinstein listen Wednesday. Ali Soufan, an FBI special agent from 1997 to 2005, told members of a key Senate Judiciary subcommittee that such "techniques...
Taylor Marsh: Dick Cheney's Cynical Bet
May 12th, 2009 - The Huffington Post
What motivates Dick Cheney? It's not what people think, though Mr. Cheney should be worried about his role in U.S. torture policy, even if he'll likely never be held to account...
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10:13Dick Cheney Defends Bush Enhanced Interrogation Techniques - Obama reserves Torture Powers
While Obama is trying to shutdown Guantanamo Bay, or Gitmo as it is sometimes referred to, he is at the same time trying to have it both ways on the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques . He wants to reserve his right to use enhanced interrogation techniques in the future ...
1:38Cheney v. Robinson on Bush Interrogation Policies
more at msnbc.com Liz Cheney and Eugene Robinson on MSNBC's Morning Joe, May 12, 2009
9:21Part 1: Cheney talks to Chris Wallace about CIA interrogation techniques
Dick Cheney talks to Chris Wallace about CIA interrogation techniques. August 30, 2009
4:28Part 2: Cheney talks to Chris Wallace about CIA interrogation techniques
Continuation of Cheney's interview with Chris Wallace on August 30, 2009.
