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Cheney: I OK'd Waterboarding

VP gave go ahead for 'remarkably successful' tactic

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 16, 2008 4:00 AM CST

(Newser) – Vice President Dick Cheney personally approved using waterboarding to interrogate 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he reveals in a wide-ranging interview on ABC News. "I was involved in helping get the process cleared. The agency came in and wanted to know what they could... Read full story »

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Cheney: I OK'd Waterboarding

VP gave go ahead for 'remarkably successful' tactic

Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Dick Cheney • torture • Karl Rove • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation • WMD • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • weapons of mass destruction • George W. Bush

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