Dick Cheini justified interrogations with addiction: "I would approve again without hesitation"

Interrogation interrogations conducted by the US Central Intelligence Directorate against people suspected of terrorism brought the desired results and were completely justified, said US Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview with NBC .

Cheney, who is considered the most influential vice president in the history of the United States, once again emphasized that thanks to the torture, valuable information was received to fight terrorists. “The program was successful, absolutely successful. I would approve it again without hesitation,” he said.

According to him, the use of torture helped the US intelligence service to establish the whereabouts of the ex-leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group, Usama Ben Laden, destroyed in May 2011 during a raid on his house in the Pakistani Abbottabad, as well as find other organizers of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and prevent new terrorist attacks on the territory of the United States.

“Torture is what al -Qaeda terrorists did with three thousand Americans on September 11,” Cheney said. “We cannot compare this and our methods of an expanded interrogation ... For me, this is not a problem if we achieve our goals, and these goals are the guys who organized 9/11, and avoid another attack on the United States.”

At the same time, Cheney denied the statements of some experts that President George Bush was little aware of such practices. “This man (president) knew what we were doing. He allowed this. He approved,” the former vice president said. According to him, briefings with the participation of Bush and the head of the CIA were daily.

The Intelligence Committee of the US Congress Senate on Tuesday published an unequal version of the report on the use of the American intelligence services against people who were suspected of terrorism and contained in secret prisons of the CIA abroad after the attacks of September 11, 2001. According to the document, they were deprived of sleep, humiliated, doused with water, creating the illusion of drowning. In addition, there were a threat to sexual violence, TASS recalls.

Complete, secret, version of the report contains 6,000 pages. Only 528 were published, and significantly distinguished.

Cheney held the position of vice president in the administration of George Bush Jr. from 2001 to 2009.