cheney also says, he has no regret about water boarding terrorists in my manner. snooze should we still be water boarding terror suspects? i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we add high value detainee and that was the only way we could get limb it talk. even though so many people condemned it, people call it torture, you think it should be a tool? yes. now we have not read the book but we have taken those excerpts from the new york times. joining me now, is lou deboes, editor of the washington spectator and coauthor of vice dick cheney and the and matthew alex ender and former senior interrogator and author of killer capture how a special operations task force took down a notorious al qaeda
policy. you will never hear former vice president dick cheney talk about the fact that it was al qaeda s number one recruiting tool in iraq and that it brought in droves of foreign fighters who killed american soldiers, hundreds if not thousands of american soldiers. and today there s press reporting, again, of another senior interrogator like myself. this one currently serving in afghanistan, who said just the mere fact that these former administration officials are on tv talking about how they would still torture is helping the taliban and al qaeda to continue to recruit new fighters. so this is going to continue to have a cost in american lives. so you re saying in a round about way tonight that the former bushies who are out on the talking heads right now are actually hurting the troops. i m not saying it in a round about way, ed. i m saying this is fact. department of defense tracked these statistics in iraq. it was a fact that the majority
number one recruiting tool in iraq and that it brought in droves of foreign fighters who killed american soldiers, hundreds if not thousands of american soldiers. and today there s press reporting, again, of another senior interrogator like myself. this one currently serving in afghanistan, who said just the mere fact that these former administration officials are on tv talking about how they would still torture is helping the taliban and al qaeda to continue to recruit new fighters. so this is going to continue to have a cost in american lives. so you re saying in a round about way tonight that the former bushies who are out on the talking heads right now are actually hurting the troops. i m not saying it in a round about way, ed. i m saying this is fact. department of defense tracked these statistics in iraq. it was a fact that the majority of foreign fighters who came there were recruited because of our policy of torture and abuse. and it s undisputable that they made up 90% of