Cheney: I approved waterboarding

[babylonsister]

Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics

The vice president says that the use of waterboarding was appropriate and that the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should stay open until 'the end of the war on terror.'

By Greg Miller
December 16, 2008


Reporting from Washington -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he was directly involved in approving severe interrogation methods used by the CIA, and that the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should remain open indefinitely.

Cheney's remarks on Guantanamo appear to put him at odds with President Bush, who has expressed a desire to close the prison, although the decision is expected to be left to the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama.

Cheney's comments also mark the first time that he has acknowledged playing a central role in clearing the CIA's use of an array of controversial interrogation tactics, including a simulated drowning method known as waterboarding.

"I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared," Cheney said in an interview with ABC News.

Asked whether he still believes it was appropriate to use the waterboarding method on terrorism suspects, Cheney said: "I do."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cheney16-2008dec16,0,5456856.story

[hootinholler]

1. Will someone please go handcuff that bastard!

Apologies to bastards.

-Hoot

[louis-t]

2. Why is this POS not in prison?

Keep bragging about it, stupid.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Cheney admits his war crimes, who will prosecute?....n/t

[NNN0LHI]

4. He just makes being an American citizen more dangerous every day doesn't he?

He has his security detail. Where ours?

Don

[JackRiddler]

5. Little doubt that his confession (of sorts) is meant to set him up for a pardon.

Disgusting.

[Solly Mack]

6. America's Vice-President goes on TV and freely admits to torture

I'm so proud

[Karenina]

7. And Americans stamp their feet

at PE Obama demanding to know what HE'S gonna do about it... :eyes:

[Solly Mack]

8. not just Americans....I know Germans who wonder the same

that have great expectations of the same