Cheney: "We resorted, for example, to waterboarding... with only three individuals"

[ProSense]

Cheney admits torture:

That assumes that we didn’t try other ways, and in fact we did. We resorted, for example, to waterboarding, which is the source of much of the controversy ... with only three individuals," Cheney said. "In those cases, it was only after we’d gone through all the other steps of the process. The way the whole program was set up was very careful to use other methods and only to resort to the enhanced techniques in those special circumstances."

(emphasis added)

The Torture Timeline

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They tortured to justify Iraq war

They Are Telling Us They Will Torture Again

Scott Horton on Condi Rice: "perhaps she’d better hire a good lawyer"

Krauthammer's ludicrous defense of torture

Why the New Torture Defense Fails

Commentary: Torture must be investigated

Scott Horton: The Bush Era Torture-Homicides

[bdamomma]

1. what a liar, keep on talking cheney you SOB!!

[MadMaddie]

2. Umm apparantly Cheney is so arrogant that he forget that the

TV machine actually is taped. He has just admitted to a crime. I hope he keeps blathering on because he will force the DOJ into having to investigate and prosecute him....

[Catshrink]

3. How do you know Dick Cheney is lying?

His lips are moving. Duh. (You've just been dickrolled.)

[glitch]

4. Cheney's a vampire zombie

LIAR!

[Canuckistanian]

5. Resorted? I think he means "salivated"

These ghouls were preparing the shackles and waterjugs even before Afghanistan was invaded.

He makes torture sound like a job interview.

[lbrtbell]

6. Earth to Cheney:

Waterboarding ONE person is one person too many! :mad:

[JDPriestly]

7. Cheney -- That was 3 waterboardings too many.

[ControlledDemolition]

9. Cheney should be the one exception. Let's see if we can get him to talk about his real 911 role! n/t

[spanone]

8. fuck you richard cheneeeeeeee

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. Cheney is using the following story as his "source"

Yeah...riiiiight, Darth.
Just three...:sarcasm:

The Cheney 'Waterboard Three' via this Feb. 2008 report:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/TheLaw/story?id=4244423




Gen. Hayden Confirms the Agency Waterboarded Three 'High-Value' Detainees
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and JASON RYAN
Feb. 5, 2008

CIA director Michael Hayden confirmed in an open session of Congress Tuesday his agency's use of an interrogation technique many consider torture -- a technique at the center of a national debate on the treatment of U.S. detainees in the war on terror and in the war in Iraq.

In acknowledging that CIA officers and contractors used waterboarding on three "high-value" detainees, Hayden revealed information nearly identical to that shared by a former CIA officer last December with ABC News, which prompted the CIA to request a criminal prosecution.

snip
ABC News first disclosed that the men were waterboarded in November 2005. On Dec. 10, 2007, former CIA officer John Kirakou, who participated in the capture of Abu Zubaydah, appeared on ABC News and discussed his conflicted feelings over the use of the technique. Kiriakou said waterboarding was effective, and a technique he might use again. He noted, however, it was also a technique he was uncomfortable with.

[magellan]

11. He/they are focusing on this to start a public debate

...about whether waterboarding is even torture. And it's working.

[Dark]

12. Can't this bastard just eat shit and crawl into a whole forever?

nt