Dick Cheney: 'It's a Crock, It's Not True...
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Sunday, 14 Dec 2014 10:27 AM
By Greg Richter
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has called the controversial Senate committee report on "enhanced interrogation techniques" both "hooey" and "full of crap" in interviews over the past week.
On Sunday, he added that it was a "crock" and said he'd authorize the same tactics again "in a minute" to prevent another 9/11-type attack.
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney disputed that the techniques, including waterboarding, were torture, as Senate Democrats and Republican Sen. John McCain maintain.
"Torture to me, Chuck, is an American citizen on his cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the Trade Center in New York City on 9/11," Cheney told "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd.
Cheney blasted the notion of "moral equivalence" between terrorism and American actions.
"The Senate has seen fit to label their report 'torture.' But we worked hard to stay short of that definition," Cheney said.
He reiterated a point made last week that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel was consulted to avoid breaking any treaties.
"All of the techniques that were authorized by the president were, in effect, blessed by the Justice Department opinion that we could go forward with those without, in fact, committing torture."
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