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Cheney Says Bush Wasn’t Kept in the Dark on Torture

December 10, 2014 at 9:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 59 Comments

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Bush was not kept in the dark on the CIA’s interrogation techniques, calling the Senate Intelligence Committee report’s claim a “flat out lie,” according to The Hill.

Said Cheney: “I think he knew certainly the techniques, we did discuss the techniques, there was no effort on our part to keep him from that. That the president wasn’t being told is just a flat out lie.”

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