Cheney defends waterboarding, says Guantanamo prison essential

May 21st, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

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Cheney defends waterboarding, says Guantanamo prison essential - Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Washington -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney, delivering a forceful defense of the Bush administration's interrogations of suspected terrorists and stern criticism of the Obama administration, maintained today that the CIA never tortured anyone and kept the United States safe from an attack potentially worse than the terrorism of Sept. 11, 2001.

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