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Cheney refuses to call CIA's brutal actions 'torture'

Iran Press TV

Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:3PM GMT

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has refused to call the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks "torture", saying he "would do it again in a minute".

On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its voluminous report on the CIA's torture program during the George W. Bush administration that continued until April 2006.

'Torture is what the Al-Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11,' Cheney, who was the vice president from 2001 to 2009, said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday. 'There is no comparison between that and what we did with respect to enhanced interrogation.'

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorists, but many analysts say it was a false-flag operation and that Osama bin Laden was just a bogeyman for the US military-industrial complex.

They believe rogue elements within the Bush administration orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11 attacks in order to boost the US economy and advance the Zionist agenda.

"We were very careful to stop short of torture," said Cheney. "The Senate has seen fit to label their report torture. But we worked hard to stay short of that definition.'

'All of the techniques that were authorized by the president were, in effect, blessed by the Justice Department opinion that we could go forward with those without, in fact, committing torture," he added.

"Torture to me is an American citizen on a cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death on the upper levels of the Trade Center in New York City on 9/11," the former vice president continued.

According to the Senate report, the CIA misled Congress and the White House about the harsh methods such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, mock executions and threats that the relatives of the prisoners would be sexually abused.

One of the methods used by the CIA on terrorism suspects during America's so-called war on terror was rectal rehydration, a brutal force-feeding technique where food is rectally infused to prisoners on hunger strike.

In his interview, Cheney seemed proud of his role in the creation of the torture program.
"I'd do it again in a minute," he declared.

Asked whether the practice of 'rectal rehydration' was acceptable, he said that it was not part of the program. But, he added, 'I believe it was done for medical reasons."

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