CIA: ‘The Interrogators Should Be Glorified,’ According to Cheney
Published in Le Point
(France) on 14 December 2014
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(France) on 14 December 2014
by (link to original)
Translated from
by Oliver Southern.
Edited by Nicholas Eckart.
On Sunday, praising the work of the agents leading the interrogations, former U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney defended the program of torture, dating from the early 2000s, which the CIA put in place against presumed members of al-Qaida. “I’m perfectly comfortable: they should be glorified, they should be decorated,” said Cheney, who served under George W. Bush between 2001 and 2009, the period when the interrogations were carried out, on NBC.
The damning report, made public on Tuesday by the Senate, states that the torture carried out by the CIA against presumed terrorists did not result in the recovery of any valuable information. The Senate Intelligence Committee also brought to light the lies of the national intelligence organization that concerned Congress and the White House.
'A Terrible Report'
However, according to Dick Cheney, these interrogations carried out under torture “performed perfectly.” The former vice-president had already made his disagreement with the findings of the senatorial report known, stating on Wednesday that it was “full of crap.”
“I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed. They did not bother to question the key people involved in the program,” he said.
Head of the CIA John Brennan also underlined on Thursday that he did not agree with the conclusions of the Senate report. If he had acknowledged that his agents had used inhumane methods of interrogation after Sept. 11, he stated that it was impossible to say if they had been used to obtain information. Numerous reforms have been carried out to ensure that this did not happen again, he also noted.
The damning report, made public on Tuesday by the Senate, states that the torture carried out by the CIA against presumed terrorists did not result in the recovery of any valuable information. The Senate Intelligence Committee also brought to light the lies of the national intelligence organization that concerned Congress and the White House.
'A Terrible Report'
However, according to Dick Cheney, these interrogations carried out under torture “performed perfectly.” The former vice-president had already made his disagreement with the findings of the senatorial report known, stating on Wednesday that it was “full of crap.”
“I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed. They did not bother to question the key people involved in the program,” he said.
Head of the CIA John Brennan also underlined on Thursday that he did not agree with the conclusions of the Senate report. If he had acknowledged that his agents had used inhumane methods of interrogation after Sept. 11, he stated that it was impossible to say if they had been used to obtain information. Numerous reforms have been carried out to ensure that this did not happen again, he also noted.