Dick Cheney says U.S. did not torture terror suspects

washingtonexaminer ^ | Dec. 14, 2014 | Brian Hughes

[PROCON]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday dismissed a Senate report on harsh interrogation practices used by the Central Intelligence Agency, saying officials "very carefully” avoided going past the legal threshold for torture.

"Torture is what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11," Cheney said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "There is no comparison between that and what we did with respect to enhanced interrogation."

The CIA’s interrogation techniques following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have come under fire following a Senate report detailing how agency operatives used waterboarding and rectal feeding to try to obtain information from suspects.

“Waterboarding, the way we did it, was not torture,” the former vice president claimed.

[PROCON]

Have the exploding liberal heads responded yet?

[Gaffer]

I don’t really care if they did, frankly. Especially if it was against Muslim combatants.

[SeekAndFind]

Waterboarding, the way we did it, was not torture,” the former vice president claimed.

What about RECTAL FEEDING ?

[RangerM]

South Park already did it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11292578/Dont-yell-at-terrorist-suspects-soldiers-told.html

[hinckley buzzard]

He is right. The statutory definition of torture requires permanent or long-lasting harm. Waterboarding and being kept awake for a couple days are not permanently damaging.

[Sacajaweau]

All he had to say was one thing....."I'd do it again in a heartbeat."

And that's what decisions in wartime are about.

This should have been kept for 50 years. Too many idiots in Washington.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]

[Logical me]

Cheney is right that we did not torture. But the communists in America will continue to use this as an excuse to destroy America. The stupid arses just don't get as they destroy America they destroy themselves. Damn ignorance is so heavy in America.

[Morpheus2009]

If we didn’t write stuff into a person’s flesh with glowing hot iron, we were not torturing them. If we didn’t neuter, we were not torturing. If we didn’t order dogs to Pinochet-rape, we didn’t torture. Guess what, regimes have ordered all te stuff I just mentioned, and some worse.

[traumer]

[Theoria]

Then these guys should get a pardon or recognition from Congress for their actions.

[TigersEye]

Apparently nutrient enemas have been used since the time of Galen until the present.

Nutrient enema

That article that says it is not a legitimate medical practice is so much crapola.