Posted on 05/10/2018 5:15:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
Former Vice President Dick Cheney told Fox Business Thursday that he thinks the CIA should restart and improve on post 9/11-era enhanced interrogation programs.
“If it were my call, I would not discontinue those programs. I'd have them active and ready to go,” he said. “And I'd go back and study them and learn."
Cheney commented on the matter following a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday in which Trump’s nominee for CIA Director, Gina Haspel, said she would not have the CIA return to such programs.
"Having served in that tumultuous time,” Haspel said of the post-9/11 techniques. “I can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership on my watch CIA will not restart such a detention and interrogation program.”
Cheney explained to Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that he did not consider the techniques torture.
“I think the techniques we used were not torture. A lot of people try to call it that, but it wasn’t deemed torture at the time,” he said. “People want to go back and try to rewrite history, but if it were my call, I’d do it again.”
“You tell me that the only method we have is please, please, pretty please, tell us what you know? Well I don’t buy that,” Cheney emphasized.
“There are a lot of Monday morning quarterbacks in the terrorism business,” he added.
Cheney did go on to express his support for Haspel as CIA Director.
“I think she’d be a great CIA director,” he said. “I think she’s done a great job in terms of the career she’s built, and the people I know at the agency are very enthusiastic about having one of their own, so to speak, in the driver’s seat at the CIA.”
Fine by me.
I agree Dick, but your saying so isn’t helping her confirmation.
Dick Cheney’s health must be stable and fairly good right now. He has been in the news a couple of times this year, after about four years of relative silence.
I don’t know if his daughter won any political office yet.
That was her goal a few years back.
He does? What gives you that idea?
I don’t understand what the moral objection is to torturing terrorists.
He made it clear many times that he couldn't couldn't stand that arrogant former pos of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I agree with you.
torture
[tawr-cher]
noun
1. the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
I’d start with Jeff Sessions.
VERY nice Mr Cheney.
The Left, with the vigorous aid of Jonnie Boy McCain, has been very successful pulling this people their way because NO ONE will stand up and say this.
I agree with him. Maybe this way we’ll get to the bottom of the real Russia collusion scandal: Clinton, Obama. And also Hillary’s emails, Benghazi, and all the rest.
Bookmark
I volunteer.
This was promised by our president, In fact, he promised worse than that for terrorist. I remember very clearly. chaney was knowingly wrong on WMD in Iraq but here he is correct. I would not vote against the Trump nominee for cia but she was very weak .
Start with Mueller and Comey. ‘You look a little thirsty there Comey, how about another drink of water?’.
I agree, and I nominate the following :
Hillary
Comey
Brennan
Clapper
Lynch
Yates
Obama
McCabe
Rosenstein
feel free to add to the partial list
What’s wrong with waterboarding terrorists to save the lives of good people? Can’t call it torture when it neither maims nor kills.
Of all of the stupidities of the left that otherwise rational people have bought into, this is one of the stupidest.
I’m not following you.
Indeed
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