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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.The waterboarding employed in the questioning of a few captured terrorists was essential to gleaning as much information about Al Qaeda's intentions as quickly as possible in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the former vice president said in a public address today."To call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who have saved American lives," he said. "It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness.""You have heard endlessly about waterboarding. . . . It happened to three terrorists," Cheney said. "We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country . . . With many thousands of lives potentially in the balance, we did not think it made good sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time."
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.
The waterboarding employed in the questioning of a few captured terrorists was essential to gleaning as much information about Al Qaeda's intentions as quickly as possible in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, the former vice president said in a public address today.
"To call this a program of torture is to libel the dedicated professionals who have saved American lives," he said. "It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness."
"You have heard endlessly about waterboarding. . . . It happened to three terrorists," Cheney said. "We had a lot of blind spots after the attacks on our country . . . With many thousands of lives potentially in the balance, we did not think it made good sense to let the terrorists answer questions in their own good time."
