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2009-05-21 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.
2009-01-26 "We have clear evidence," he said. "In our report that we sent to the United Nations, we made it clear that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld clearly authorized torture methods and he was told at that time by Alberto Mora, the legal council of the Navy, 'Mr. Secretary, what you are actual ordering here amounts to torture.' So, there we have the clear evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld knew what he was doing but, nevertheless, he ordered torture."
-- Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, during an interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez
2008-12-15 "I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it."
-- -- Dick Cheney, Vice-President USA, in an interview with ABC News in response to the question: "Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?"
2008-12-15 "On the question of so-called torture, we don't do torture. We never have. It's not something that this administration subscribes to. Again, we proceeded very cautiously. We checked. We had the Justice Department issue the requisite opinions in order to know where the bright lines were that you could not cross.

The professionals involved in that program were very, very cautious, very careful -- wouldn't do anything without making certain it was authorized and that it was legal. And any suggestion to the contrary is just wrong."
-- Dick Cheney, Vice-President USA, in an interview with ABC News
2008-11-27 “The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects.
But this is a meditated edifice of official India’s political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country’s political physicians need to heal themselves.
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Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses.
Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.”
-- Tariq Ali, author
2008-09-22 “These photographs demonstrate that the abuse of prisoners held in U.S. custody abroad was not aberrational and not confined to Abu Ghraib, but the result of policies adopted by high-ranking officials. Their release is critical for bringing an end to the administration’s torture policies and for deterring further prisoner abuse.”
-- Amrit Singh, ACLU staff attorney, after a federal appeals court ordered the Bush administration to hand over photos depicting abuse of prisoners held by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan
2008-08-27 Some years ago, abuses were committed at Abu Ghraib prison -- conduct that was not authorized and that did violate the law. When those abuses came to light, Americans were rightly outraged. Those who violated the law were arrested, prosecuted and punished, as justice demanded.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 We expect all who serve America to conduct themselves with honor. And we enforce the rules.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 No nation in the world takes human rights more seriously than the United States. The policies of our country comply with our law, which prohibits torture.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion
2008-08-27 The CIA program involves tough customers and tough interrogations -- but it is entirely legal and proper. The procedures are designed to be safe in full compliance with this nation's laws and treaty obligations. They've been carefully reviewed by the Department of Justice. The program is run by highly trained professionals who understand their obligations under the law.
-- Dick Cheney, USA Vice President, Remarks on the 90th National Convention of the American Legion












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