Cheney: ‘We Worked Hard To Stay Short of Definition of Torture’

‘Absolutely not true’ there’s any moral equivalence between what we did and what al Qaeda did

"Torture to me, Chuck, is an American citizen on his cell phone making the 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. There is this notion that somehow there is moral equivalence between what the terrorists did and what we did and that's absolutely not true … The report is seriously flow. They didn’t talk to anybody who knew anything about the program. They didn’t talk to anybody who was in the program. The best guide for what in fact happened is the one — it’s the report that was produced by the three CIA directors and deputy directors of the CIA when this program was undertaken. And in fact it lays out in very clear terms what we did and how we did it. And with respect to trying to define that as a torture, I come back to the proposition, torture was what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11. There is no comparison between that and what we did with respect to enhanced interrogation.”

 

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