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Cheney admits authorizing detainee's torture
rawstory.com - 12/15/2008
Cheney admits authorizing detainee's torture
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Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be. Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast. When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved ...
politico.com - 12/15/2008
Cheney: Obama 'not likely to cede authority'
— politico.com — Cheney said Obama will “appreciate” the expansions of executive power achieved during the Bush administration.... (more) Cheney: Obama 'not likely to cede authority'

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Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed
abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008
Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed
— abcnews.go.com — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a reflective Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's... national security team and admitted he's changed during his time in office. In his first exit interview and first television ... (more) Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed

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latimes.com - 12/16/2008
Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — His comments come on the heels of disclosures by a Senate committee showing that high-level officials in... the Bush administration were intimately involved in reviewing and approving interrogation methods that have since been explicitly outlawed and ... (more) Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics - ...

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Politics Daily:  Dick Cheney Takes Parting Shots

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The Reaction:  Cheney the torturer, al-Zaidi the tortured

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Dick Cheney Takes Parting Shots
Politics Daily — ... Of waterboarding, Cheney said that he supported the process of getting it cleared. He called waterboarding, "a remarkably successful effort, and I think the results speak for themselves." Actually, they don't, since we have no idea what information waterboarded detainees have provided. ...

Quote of the Day
Shakesville — "I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."—Outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney, on "the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed," the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Those "tactics" included waterboarding, and, in this interview, Cheney is explicitly asked as a follow-up if he thinks waterboarding was appropriate, and he ...

Cheney the torturer, al-Zaidi the tortured
The Reaction — ... This doesn't exactly come as a revelation, but the admission, at long last, is welcome nonetheless. According to The Raw Story, Dick Cheney has finally admitted that he supported the use of torture on detainees (specifically waterboarding, which, despite the denials from its supporters, is torture). In other words, he supported what is, essentially, a ...

Cheney Defends Torture: It ‘Would Have Been Unethical Or Immoral’ For Us Not To Torture
Think Progress — ... In an interview earlier this week, Vice President Cheney admitted to personally approving the torture of high-profile detainees. In a new interview with the Washington Times, Cheney stridently defended the Bush administration’s torture policies, saying, “ ...

Obama defends choice of Rev. Warren at inauguration: ?We can disagree without being disagreeable.?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... In an interview earlier this week, Vice President Cheney admitted to personally approving the torture of high-profile detainees. In a new interview with the Washington Times, Cheney stridently defended the Bush administration’s torture policies, saying, “I feel very good about what we did. I think it was the right thing to do.” He added emphatically […] cheney-car.gif In an interview earlier this week, Vice President Cheney admitted to personally approving the torture of high-profile detainees. In a new interview with the Washington Times, Cheney stridently defended the Bush ...

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