Cheney on the dark side, if you will

Dick Cheney is worried and wants his waterboard back. "I'm still concerned that a lot of the techniques we used to keep the country safe for seven years have been taken off the table," Cheney said. "It's not clear to me today that we have an interrogation program that we could put a high-value terrorist through."

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, never one to miss an opportunity to lobby for the dark side* and suffering no moral qualms made an appearance on Fox News Sunday to support and promote torture or as he prefers “enhanced interrogation techniques”. Obama’s NSA advisor says these methods are "not consistent with our values, not consistent and not necessary in terms of getting the kind of intelligence that we need."

However Cheney claims waterboarding and harsh methods of interrogating played a role in capturing Osama bin Laden two years since Obama banned the use of waterboarding and tens years after 9/11.

Asked whether the methods should be reinstated if the United States were to capture a new value target, Cheney replied: "I certainly would advocate it. I'd be a strong supporter of it."

It’s not torture and beside Bush/Cheney claim they made it legal:
Cheney also dismissed the notion that waterboarding, or simulated drowning, amounted to torture, saying he and the rest of the Bush team had gone to great lengths to ensure what they did was legal.

* Sept. 16 2001 interviewed by NBC’s Tim Russert,
Cheney: We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we’re going to be successful. That’s the world these folks operate in, and so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective. (Emphasis in original.)