If you missed Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday this weekend, you can watch the interview here and read the transcript here. Cheney has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s decision to investigate CIA interrogation techniques, and of the President’s national security policies in general. You’ll want to see the interview to understand his argument.
Here is a sample:
CHENEY: Chris, my sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of American lives, in preventing further attacks against the United States, in giving us the intelligence we needed to go find Al Qaida, to find their camps, to find out how they were being financed.
The — those interrogations were involved in the arrest of nearly all of the Al Qaida members that we were able to bring to justice. I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years we had no further mass casualty attacks against the United States.
It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well…
(CROSSTALK)
WALLACE: So even these cases where they went beyond the specific legal authorization, you’re OK with it.
CHENEY: I am.
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