Cheney is Right

Cheney defends CIA interrogation tactics. Good for him for sticking by his guns and exposing the obama administration and democrats for weakening our defenses. They are reversing every policy which has kept this country safe since 9/11. What is wrong with scaring a few terrorists into thinking the interrogators would use an electric drill on them thereby making them give up information which saved American lives? To these crazy liberals, even making believe you will torture the terrorists although they never actually get physically harmed, is considered out of bounds. It’s frightening knowing that these are the people now in charge of safeguarding America.

Cheney: Enhanced Interrogations ‘Essential’ in Saving American Lives

Former Vice President Dick Cheney defends the CIA’s aggressive interrogation of terrorists — telling FOX News he worries that the Democratic Party has become “partisan” and weak on national security.

By Bill Sammon, FOXNews.com, Sunday, August 30, 2009

Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the CIA’s aggressive interrogation of terrorists — including techniques that may have skirted the law — by saying it kept the nation safe from “mass casualty attacks” for eight years.

Cheney, speaking on “FOX News Sunday” in an exclusive interview, touted the effectiveness of the tactics as he blasted the Obama administration for its decision to investigate alleged prisoner abuses by the CIA.

“The enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of American lives and preventing further attacks against the United States, and giving us the intelligence we needed to go find Al Qaeda, to find their camps, to find out how they were being financed,” Cheney said. .

“Those interrogations were involved in the arrest of nearly all the Al Qaeda members that we were able to bring to justice,” he added. “I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years, we had no further mass casualty attacks against the United States.”

Seven months after leaving office, the former vice president spoke unapologetically about controversial techniques such as waterboarding, which approximates the sensation of drowning.

“I knew about the waterboarding,” Cheney said. “Not specifically in any one particular case, but as a general policy that we had approved.”

But the Bush administration did not approve of scaring terrorists with fake executions or power drills, two tactics that came to light in a report last week by the CIA’s inspector general. Cheney nevertheless downplayed those allegations and defended those accused of using such tactics.

“They looked at this question of whether or not somebody had an electric drill in an interrogation session — it was never used on the individual,” Cheney said of the inspector general’s report. “Or that they had brought in a weapon — never used on the individual.”

“So even these cases where they went beyond the specific legal authorization, you’re OK with it?” Asked FOX News’ Chris Wallace.

“I am,” Cheney replied.

“The thing I keep coming back to time and time again, Chris, is the fact that we’ve gone for eight years without another attack,” Cheney said. “Now, how do you explain that? The critics don’t have any solution for that. They can criticize our policies, our way of doing business, but the results speak for themselves.”

He added: “It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well.” Asked if he thinks “Democrats are soft on national security,” Cheney replied: “I do.”

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