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Dick Cheney bemoans end of harsh interrogation tactics
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Posted on 05/07/2011 5:25:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Dick Cheney bemoans end of harsh interrogation tactics

By Fox News From: NewsCore May 08, 2011 9:45AM

FORMER Vice President Dick Cheney has tipped his hat to Barack Obama for authorising the military operation that led to the killing of Oama bin Laden last weekend.

But, in an interview with Fox News Sunday, he also lamented the end of controversial Bush-era interrogations that many conservatives believe contributed to America's greatest counterterrorism success.

"Well, I think you've got to give him (Obama) a lot of credit for making the decision to have the SEAL team 6 conduct the raid that got bin Laden," Mr Cheney said. "It's no question that was his responsibility and I think he handled it well."

But he fanned the flames of a renewed debate over whether the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the Bush-era CIA - including sleep deprivation and the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding - were successful and lawful.

"I am still concerned about the fact that, I think a lot of the techniques that we had used to keep the country safe for more than seven years are no longer available," he said. "That they've been sort of taken off the table, if you will."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cheney; obltermination; torture; waterboarding
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1 posted on 05/07/2011 5:25:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, you can blow their brains out, just don’t waterboard them, it might be cruel.


2 posted on 05/07/2011 5:27:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Sub-Driver

I still believe Panetta ordered the hit, and told Obama after the order, so he wouldn’t be caught with his pants down. Obama would never kill a kindred spirit.


3 posted on 05/07/2011 5:27:53 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and Ford trucks)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wonder how Cheney would feel if I strapped him down to a table and proceeded to extract everything he knows?


4 posted on 05/07/2011 5:28:22 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Gosh. I appreciate what Vice President Cheney did during his eight years, but now he is no longer the VP. I wish formers would stay out of everything unless they are going to run again. This just allows for Joe Biden to criticize anything and everything that Sarah will do beginning 2013. Plus after the honoring Obama part was a bit nauseating.


5 posted on 05/07/2011 5:30:09 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Another irrelevant post from someone who has never earned a dime in the private sector.....and never having been shot at in anger in the service to his country....


6 posted on 05/07/2011 5:38:40 PM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: Sub-Driver

Since Osama was shot in the face, you know Dick
Cheney had something to do with it.


7 posted on 05/07/2011 5:40:14 PM PDT by donmeaker ("To every simple question, there is a neat, simple answer, that is dead wrong." Mark Twain)
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To: Sub-Driver

Since Osama was shot in the face, you know Dick
Cheney had something to do with it.


8 posted on 05/07/2011 5:40:25 PM PDT by donmeaker ("To every simple question, there is a neat, simple answer, that is dead wrong." Mark Twain)
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To: donmeaker

I think cheney shoots people in the butt.


9 posted on 05/07/2011 5:43:03 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and Ford trucks)
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To: bigheadfred

Of course he would feel bad. The point is, water boarding causes no permanent damage, is performed upon our own soldiers in training, and thus is not torture. Further, it is an effective way to get information. The threat of doing it again is a powerful inducement to talk.


10 posted on 05/07/2011 5:43:16 PM PDT by donmeaker ("To every simple question, there is a neat, simple answer, that is dead wrong." Mark Twain)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I read somewhere about Cheney being on the same flight as Susan Sarandon. It must have been awful to be on the same plane as that Far Lefty (with or without her latest boy toy). I would have asked for a barf bag.


11 posted on 05/07/2011 5:43:27 PM PDT by juliej
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I kinda think you are right. He made someone else look like he made the the decision....he has plausible deniability....until he thinks it would be better if he DID make the call....


12 posted on 05/07/2011 5:46:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: bigheadfred
Wonder how Cheney would feel if I strapped him down to a table and proceeded to extract everything he knows?

Any particular reason you are wondering this other than you are insane?

13 posted on 05/07/2011 5:47:25 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: bigheadfred

If he were a terrorist, he should expect it.


14 posted on 05/07/2011 5:49:29 PM PDT by jch10 (Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war...)
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To: goodnesswins

There are alleged “leaks” that Panetta and the military brass got fed up waiting for Obama to make a decision, so they made it for him. Of course if it failed, Obama would have fired Panetta ;-)


15 posted on 05/07/2011 5:50:38 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and Ford trucks)
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To: bigheadfred

If he starts terrorism against the US and has information.. Be my guest. Otherwise, knock off the idiocy.


16 posted on 05/07/2011 5:50:44 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: bigheadfred

He wouldn’t “feel” anything.....cause, you’d be dead.


17 posted on 05/07/2011 5:51:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Unlike the West, the Islamic world is serious.)
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To: juliej

I’m surprised Sarandon didn’t shoot off her mouth. She is a lunatic.


18 posted on 05/07/2011 5:52:13 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and Ford trucks)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
As much as I detest FDR he protected this country.

Progressives hate that about him or forget it.

19 posted on 05/07/2011 6:04:03 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: Sub-Driver

None of the original Gitmo denizens would have known anything about OBL’s current digs in Pakistan. But maybe waterboarding some newer prisoners would have turned OBL up sooner. (On a third hand, one wonders how no Americans knew anything about what was just around the corner, good grief, from Pakistan’s own army headquarters! Good spying, not waterboarding, was lacking there.)


20 posted on 05/07/2011 6:11:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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