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Posted By tehranchik 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsJONATHAN KARL: Mr. Vice President, there has not been a terrorist attack in the United States in more than seven years. How important have your administration's policies on surveillance, interrogation and detention been in protecting the homeland?
KARL: Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
CHENEY: I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.
KARL: In hindsight, do you think any of those tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others went too far?
CHENEY: I don't.
KARL: What is your advice to President-elect Obama then on this? Because he's been quite critical. And he might have supported...
CHENEY: He has.
KARL: ... FISA. But President-elect Obama has been very critical of the counterterrorism policies of this administration.
CHENEY: Well, counterterrorism policy's designed to defeat the terrorists. It turns on intelligence. You can't do anything without collecting first-rate intelligence. And that's what these programs are all about.
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Lurch11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Any even remotely informed person knows that Cheney-style torture does the exact opposite of provide you with first-rate intelligence.
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From the Revolutionary War on, our intelligence and military have been against torture because it harms your effort more than your enemy's.
But what can you expect from an administration that hijacked the WOT to invade a country that never attacked nor threatened us. -
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Lurch11 months, 2 weeks ago
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The reason no new domestic terror attacks? The Bush admin put Americans at any potential terrorists front door so they don't even need to apply for a passport to attack us.
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Thanks to Bush and Cheney the terrorists have killed a third more Americans in iraq than they killed on 9/11, without ever having to take an English lesson or go through airport security.
And that does not even start to count the tens of thousands of GIs physically wounded for life or the hundreds of thousands of GIs mentally wounded for life.
AQ thanks Bush and Cheney for completing their mission for them.
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