LAUER: Enhanced interrogation techniques: In your book, you state bluntly you have no regrets about being in favor of things like waterboarding – I think you say even if circumstances were the same today you’d make the same decisions....If an American citizen were to be taken into captivity in Iran, for example, and the government of Iran were to look at that person and say, ‘We think you’re a spy for the U.S. or you’re here to carry out a covert operation. Would it be okay for the Iranian government to waterboard that American citizen?
My answer would have been:
If that American citizen was a man who was the self-admitted mastermind of killing over 3000 Iranians for no reason and had plans in place to kill 1000’s more they would have that right.
Exactly. And that person would be begging for waterboarding, because waterboarding would be like a walk in the park compared to the real "torture" that other nations would inflict.