Headline Roundup December 14, 2014
Cheney on CIA Report
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Washington Times
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that, despite the backlash against harsh CIA interrogation tactics, he would authorize them again with no hesitation.
“It worked. It’s worked now for 13 years. We’ve avoided another mass casualty event against the United States,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’d do it again in a minute.”
Senate Democrats last week released a report that described interrogation tactics including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, rectal feedings and confinements in coffin-sized boxes for more than a week. Many have called the actions torture, saying...
Vox
Reasonable people can, I suppose, debate whether or not it was sound public policy for the United States to torture subjects apprehended as part of the global war on terrorism. Maybe shoving hummus up a man's rectum and threatening to rape another man's mother were good ideas. Maybe there's a planet on which torturing people who haven't even been interrogated through convention
Politico
Former Vice President Dick Cheney unapologetically pressed his defense of the CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques Sunday, insisting that waterboarding and other such tactics did not amount to torture and that the spy agency’s actions paled in comparison to those of terrorists targeting Americans.
“Torture, to me … is an American citizen on his cellphone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the Trade Center in New York on 9/11,” Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the...
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