Cheney Says Torture Report Is ‘Hooey’

Former Vice President Cheney admitted to the New York Times that he had not read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report but “from news reports about it, he said he had heard nothing to change his mind about the wisdom and effectiveness of the program.”

Said Cheney: “What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it. I think that’s all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program.”