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Outgoing American Vice President Dick Cheney has told ABC News that he no problem with the tactics used against terrorism suspects his administration used and was a main factor in getting waterboarding approved.
“I was aware of the [waterboarding] 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,” Cheney explained.
“And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it,” Cheney said.
When asked if in hindsight he thought the tactics went too far, Cheney said, “I don’t”.
Cheney also backed the administration’s imprisonment of suspects without trial. Noting the same tactic was used on German soldiers during WWII, Cheney noted that most countries did not want to accept the terror suspects and at least 30 of those released “ended up back on the battlefield again, and we’ve encountered them a second time around. But they’ve either been killed or captured in further conflicts with our forces.”
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