CIA interrogators heroes not torturers: Cheney

[Jazzy]

CIA interrogators heroes not torturers: Cheney

Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes.

"I'm perfectly comfortable that they should be praised, they should be decorated," former president George W. Bush's right-hand man told NBC television's "Meet the Press" program, adding, "I'd do it again in a minute."

He made his remarks after the release by Senate Democrats last week of a long-awaited investigation into detention and interrogation practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

In excruciating detail, the report described crude torture methods including waterboarding, hanging people for hours from their wrists and locking them in tiny coffin-shaped boxes.

The report questioned the effectiveness of such techniques, which it determined were actually counterproductive for getting actionable intelligence.

Cheney strongly disagreed.

"It worked. It absolutely worked," he said on Sunday about the program which US officials euphemistically have referred to as employing "enhanced interrogation techniques."

The remarks echo comments made last week by the former vice president defending the interrogation program and blasting the 500-page Senate report as "terrible" and "full of crap."

Thoughts about what he said?

 

[Webster]

I never thought I'd ever say this, but Darth Cheney's right; those interrogators were heroes, not torturers...

 

[Dee]

Heroes? Eh, I wouldn't say that. Torture is what they were doing, and so torturers they are. Whether I think that's bad or not depends on who they were torturing.

 

[DrLeftover]

You have to remember one thing: Most national level Democrats and their media talking head lap dogs, will not be happy until The Wanker gets to address the nation on another national day of mourning after another terrorist attack.

 

[+paradox]

CIA interrogators heroes not torturers: Cheney

Former US vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday defended America's now-banned program that tortured Al-Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it as heroes.

"I'm perfectly comfortable that they should be praised, they should be decorated," former president George W. Bush's right-hand man told NBC television's "Meet the Press" program, adding, "I'd do it again in a minute."

He made his remarks after the release by Senate Democrats last week of a long-awaited investigation into detention and interrogation practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

In excruciating detail, the report described crude torture methods including waterboarding, hanging people for hours from their wrists and locking them in tiny coffin-shaped boxes.

The report questioned the effectiveness of such techniques, which it determined were actually counterproductive for getting actionable intelligence.

Cheney strongly disagreed.
you cannot "strongly disagree" with facts wannabe vice president of the free world...

"It worked. It absolutely worked," he said on Sunday about the program which US officials euphemistically have referred to as employing "enhanced interrogation techniques."

The remarks echo comments made last week by the former vice president defending the interrogation program and blasting the 500-page Senate report as "terrible" and "full of crap."

Thoughts about what he said?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I always thought Cheney was far more the conservative then Bush ever was. Yes they are heroes when you live in a screwed up world where there own fellow country men would rather punish the people doing the ugly things needed to be done and then say we need to understand those killer islamists.