Dick Cheney Who Supports ‘Enhanced Interrogation’, Has Answer For Liz Cheney To Redeem Herself With GOP
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Fox Business that if it were up to him, he would reinstate harsher interrogation tactics in 2018.
Cheney noted that he does not consider enhanced interrogation as “torture” even though “sometimes a lot of other people” do.
The 46th vice president who served under former president George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 said the enhanced interrogation is beneficial to the country — especially when investigating terrorism-related cases.
“I believe what we did contributed to the intelligence that led to bin Laden’s capture,” Cheney said on Thursday, referring to the interrogation of terrorists such as Sheikh Mohammad which became favorable to US intelligence.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Thursday defended the Bush administration's enhanced interrogation techniques used against terror suspects following the 9/11 attacks and told @FoxBusiness' @MariaBartiromo, "If it were my call, I'd do it again." https://t.co/81PPIXKKEx pic.twitter.com/DMbdHXcPGm
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 10, 2018
“If it were my call I would not discontinue those programs,” Cheney added, as he recalled the devastation left in the wake of 9/11 terror attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.
“I’d have them active and ready to go,” he added.
Cheney went on and blasted Congress saying it “has acted and amended the law,” and that the CIA must follow the new laws set making enhanced interrogation procedures difficult.
“If you know he’s probably the guy who knows more than anybody else except Bin Laden and then you tell me that ‘please, please, pretty please tell me what you know,’ well I don’t buy that,” the former VP — who was known for his role in the run-up to the Iraq War — added.
In May, Cheney reportedly blasted the GOP for taking away his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney’s (Wyoming) leadership position and suggested that the “US should invade Iraq” over the squabble.
“I just don’t see the GOP leadership doing this on their own. It has to be something to do with Iraq,” a spokesperson for the former VP said. “It makes no sense.”
Cheney: “US should invade Iraq”
His spokesperson noted that former VP Cheney understands that the decision of House Republicans to demote his daughter is related to her criticism of former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in the January 6 Capitol Hill chaos.
Yet, the spokesperson said VP Cheney “still contends that the truth of the demotion of his daughter will one day come out and it has to be related to Iraq.”
“It’s Iraq. Has to be,” his spokesperson said. “Mr. Cheney thinks anything else is a bunch of hooey. This is exactly why he thinks we need to invade Iraq now. By the time the truth actually comes out, he says it will be too late. Do it now, and Liz can be redeemed.”
Although there’s currently no correlation between the firing of Liz Cheney with invasion of Iraq, Cheney reportedly pushed for it anyway.
“That’s how he feels Liz can get her position back. Invade Iraq. The U.S. will be greeted as liberators anyway,” Cheney’s spokesperson added.
His daughter, Liz Cheney was ousted from the No. 3 leadership position in the House of Representatives in May — after holding the GOP conference chairman position.
The younger Cheney had been adamant in her opposition to former President Trump and what she claims are his “dangerous lies” about the 2020 election being stolen from him, placing her at odds with other House Republicans who tried to move on from the January 6 Capitol Hill riot and unite the party in order to win the 2022 midterm elections.
