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abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008
Exclusive: Cheney Holds Hard-Line Stance
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In an exclusive interview Monday with ABC News , Vice President Dick Cheney issued an unapologetic defense of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies, including the use of waterboarding, and said the prison at Guantanamo Bay should remain open as long as there's a war on terror. In his ...
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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abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008
Excerpts: Vice President Cheney Interview
— abcnews.go.com — Transcript: Cheney Defends Hard Line Tactics In Exclusive Interview With ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney Opens... Up About His Hard Line Tactics Dec. 16, 2008— The following is a transcript from ABC News' Jonathan Karl's exclusive interview with ... (more) Excerpts: Vice President Cheney Interview

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ABC Hypes Cheney's 'Startling Admission' -- But Doesn't Say What It Was
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Plugging how “Vice President Cheney sat down with ABC's Jonathan Karl for an exclusive interview,” fill-in World News anchor Elizabeth Vargas on Monday night asserted Cheney “made a startling admission about the questioning of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.” But Vargas failed to explain what Cheney said to Karl that represented “a startling admission” and Karl didn't point out any “startling admission” from Cheney in the interview excerpt which followed the Vargas set up. In fact, Cheney didn't really say anything new as he stood by the “remarkably successful effort” to get intelligence ...

Scott Ritter: Dick Cheney's Fantasy World
The Latest on Air America — In yet another attempt at revisionist history by the outgoing Bush administration, vice-president Dick Cheney, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, took exception to former presidential adviser Karl Rove's contention that the US would not have gone to war if available intelligence before the invasion had shown Iraq not to possess weapons of mass destruction.Cheney noted that the only thing the US got wrong on Iraq was that there were no stockpiles of WMD at the time of the 2003 invasion. "What they found was that Saddam Hussein still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction. He had the ...

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