Cheney Delivers Blistering Assessment of Report on CIA Interrogations
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Tom Pennington/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney continued his assault on the critical review of the CIA’s interrogation program, saying the report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is “full of crap.”
Cheney, who used the word “hooey” when interviewed by The New York Times before the report’s release, told the Fox News Channel Wednesday that partisan Democrats have “thrown the professionals under the bus” by claiming the CIA received no worthy intelligence from controversial interrogation methods following the 9/11 attacks.
An ardent defender of the program that he helped oversee, Cheney seemed to suggest that Democrats wanted to coddle “the murderers of 3,000 people on 9/11.”
While the report detailed the harsh treatment 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed underwent while in CIA custody, Cheney asked incredulously, “What are we supposed to do? Kiss him on both cheeks? “
Cheney also disputed allegations that then-President George W. Bush was somehow left out of the loop about CIA practices, claiming, “He knew everything he needed to know and wanted to know about the program. He did know certainly the techniques. He did discuss the techniques.”
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