National security trumps feelings.
Via NY Post:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney stood by the CIA’s controversial torture program and said interrogation techniques like waterboarding should still be in place.
“It worked,” Cheney told Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Cheney helped launch the program after the 9/11 terrorist attacks under President George W. Bush and credited the information obtained from detainees – especially 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — for making the country safer.
“He’s the guy that got waterboarded more than anybody else. I think what we did helped ultimately produce the intelligence we needed to be able to get (Osama) bin Laden,” Cheney said.
Cheney still doesn’t consider waterboarding illegal or torture.
“If it were my call, I would not discontinue those programs,” he said. “I’d have them active and ready to go, and I’d go back and study them and learn.”