here s dick cheney defending torture. i was a strong advocate and helped put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasn t torture. we were very careful in all respects to abide by the law. we got legal opinions out of the justice department with respect to what we could do and what we couldn t do. this notion that somehow there was torture involved, that s not true. it s a name that, a term that the critics have used in order to try to discredit the program. but the fact is those two programs as much as anything kept us safe for 7 1/2 years. and the fact that we defeated all follow-on teams on a major attack against the united states speaks for itself. it worked. did you listen to the logic there? it forced people to tell the truth they wouldn t otherwise tell because we did things to them to make them tell the truth. none of it is true. it didn t work.
it the enhanced interrogation program was a huge success. here s dick cheney defending torture. i was a strong advocate and helped put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasn t torture. we were very careful in all respects to abide by the law. we got legal opinions out of the justice department with respect to what we could do and what we couldn t do. this notion that somehow there was torture involved, that s not true. it s a name that, a term that the critics have used in order to try to discredit the program. but the fact is those two programs as much as anything kept us safe for 7 1/2 years. and the fact that we defeated all follow-on teams on a major attack against the united states speaks for itself. it worked. a. did you listen to the logic there? it forced people to tell the truth they wouldn t otherwise tell because we did things to