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Cheney on Torture: Lying or Ignorant?

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on the December 14th episode of Meet the Press.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on the December 14th episode of Meet the Press.
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On Sunday, days after the release of the Senate torture report, former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Meet the Press to defend the Bush-Cheney administration's use of harsh interrogation practices and to deny that these methods were torture. It was a typical no-retreat/no-surrender performance by Cheney. Asked by host Chuck Todd to define torture, Cheney repeatedly said torture was what happened on 9/11: "what the Al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans." That is, he defined torture as an act of mass violence that targets civilians.
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