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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

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this is not the holy grail and doesn t answer all the questions and why now into an election year would you bring this up? i read an article earlier this week, he said that senator feinstein wanted a report so scathing it would insure that it would never again be permitted. that may show deep emotional feeling on the part of the senator but i don t think it leads you to an objective report. in part the report is objective based on fact thoroughly footnoted and i m certain it will stand on its own meri merits. dick cheney defended the tactics used claiming they weren t torture. i was a strong advocate and help put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasn t torture.

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find out what we could do, how far we could go, what was legal and so forth. and out of that emerged what we call enhanced interrogation. and it worked. cheney, grasping at straws is he not? he has no definitive proof that any of the torture that he advocated actually worked. we all remember dick cheney s procedures and techniques for intel operations. if you don t agree with the boss he got outed. i think there was a movie about that. dick cheney has been the biggest attack dog against president obama and we have the tape to prove it. i wasn t a fan of his when he got elected and my views haven t changed any. i have serious doubts about his policies, serious doubts especially about the extent to which he understands and is prepared to do what needs to be done to defend the nation. president obama campaigned

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as to what our military has done and how the commander-in-chief acted. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, will republicans succeed in rewriting history? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639 and of course you can always go to our new blog at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. joining us now is matthew alexander a former military interrogator who tracked down senior al qaeda leaders in iraq. he is also the author of the book kill or capture? great to have you with us tonight, matthew. does dick cheney know what the hell he is talking about? i remember senator biden during a foreign services committee hearing saying don t pay atoengs cheney because he doesn t know what the hell he is talking about. what side do you fall on? i am saying the same thing i have been saying. these people who put in place the policy for torture and supported torture will not talk about the long-term cost of that

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