The Senate intelligence committee’s torture report does a great job of detailing when and how CIA officers used inhumane interrogation techniques on detainees. But it falls short on blaming CIA overseers, including President George W. Bush, for sanctioning the brutality. Don’t take my word for it, though. Take Dick Cheney’s.
The former vice president said this to NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday:
What happened was [the president] and I met every single morning with the director of the CIA, with the national security advisers six days a week and reviewed everything basically in the intelligence arena. … This man knew what we were doing. He authorized it, he approved it. A statement by the Senate Democrats for partisan purposes that the president didn’t know what was going on is just a flat-out lie.
