Dick Cheney needs to STFU.
From CNN:
Cheney told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Bush administration’s “alternative” interrogation techniques were “absolutely essential” to preventing further assaults like the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Critics said those techniques amounted to the torture of prisoners in American custody.
“President Obama campaigned against it all across the country, and now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack,” Cheney said.
“Stuff happens, and an administration has to be able to respond to that and we did,” Cheney told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Stuff does happen. But how you respond to it as a moral country is what’s important. Can we get actionable intelligence from prisoners who are not brought close to death? Some interrogation officials say yes. For me, the issue wasn’t that this country was torturing prisoners (this happens in every war), but that it was a government policy to do so. The second Bush approved waterboarding and other interrogation actions that were considered unlawful by the Geneva Convention, he took us down a road that would actually make us LESS SAFE.
Smartest thing to do would be to use it when absolutely necessary. In our current situation, it was the rule instead of the exception.
And that immoral, bald headed fuck is the last person who should give any advice at all.
