Waterboard Cheney!

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment

07 Apri 14

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ick Cheney has defended torture techniques so many times that a frustrated U.S. senator has finally offered to waterboard the former vice president.

�The accusations are not true,� Cheney told college television station ATV last week. �Some people called it torture. It wasn�t torture.�

�If I would have to do it all over again, I would,� he insisted. �The results speak for themselves.�

A report that has been completed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, however, has found that the CIA misled the government and misstated the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced interrogation program. The report concluded that the CIA lied when it said it had gotten �otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives.�

Sen. Angus King, who is on the intelligence committee, (I-ME) reacted to Cheney�s comments during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC.

�I was stunned to hear that quote from Vice President Cheney,� King explained. �If he doesn�t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them a hundred and plus-odd times.�

�That�s ridiculous to make that claim! This was torture by anybody�s definition,� he continued. �John McCain says it�s torture, and I think he�s in a better position to know this than Vice President Cheney. I was shocked to hear that statement that he just made.�

�And to say that it was carefully managed, and everybody knew what was going on, that�s absolutely nonsense.�

King concluded: �Sorry to be sort of wound upon this, but I couldn�t believe that quote from Vice President Cheney.�

Watch the video below from MSNBC, broadcast April 6, 2014.