TIMESONLINE: Dick Cheney has asked for secret US documents to be released showing that harsh CIA interrogation techniques such as waterboarding produced valuable intelligence.
The former US Vice President used an interview with FOX News to step into the row that has developed since President Obama ordered the publication of Bush administration legal memos justifying practices which are condemned in many parts of the world as torture.
Mr Cheney said that he had made a formal request to the CIA for the documents be declassified because he knew that the interrogation process - now banned by Mr Obama - had been very successful, and he wanted the rest of the country to understand.
The additional documents had to be made public to allow an "honest debate", Mr Cheney said.
In the interview, Mr Cheney also attacked Mr Obama for apologising for US actions that he said did not need apologising for, and for actions and statements which he claimed had harmed the standing of the US in the world. >>> Jenny Booth | Tuesday, April 21, 2009
FOX NEWS: Cheney Calls for Release of Memos Showing Results of Interrogation Efforts
Former Vice President Cheney says he knows how successful the interrogation techniques were in collecting intelligence for the United States and wants that information to be released to the public as well as the legal memos explaining the decision to allow the heavily criticized methods.
Now that the memos showing the rulings of interrogation techniques have been released, the Obama administration should release additional documents that show what the interrogations yielded to make it an "honest debate," former Vice President Dick Cheney told FOX News on Monday.
In an interview with FOX News' Sean Hannity aired on "Hannity" Monday night, Cheney questioned the point of releasing the legal decisions behind the interrogations but not the outcome of them.
"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort," Cheney said.
Cheney said he's asked that the documents be declassified because he has remained silent on the confidential information, but he knows how successful the interrogation process was and wants the rest of the country to understand. >>> FOXNews.com | Monday, April 20, 2009
