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Date: 2009-05-21 (Thursday)
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. Cheney sharply criticized President Barack Obama's handling of terrorism policy and defended harsh interrogation methods that Obama has labeled torture.






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