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"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort,"
Cheney said he's asked that the documents be declassified because he has remained silent on the confidential information, but he knows how successful the interrogation process was and wants the rest of the country to understand.
"I haven't talked about it, but I know specifically of reports that I read, that I saw, that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were for the country," Cheney said. "I've now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was." [snip]
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has repeatedly criticized the use of certain techniques that have been described by critics as torture. But McCain said earlier in the day that the decision to release the Justice Department memos "helps no one."
"(The release) doesn't help America's image, does not help us address the issue and I think it was a serious mistake,"
[Q: What other nation publicizes its clandestine operations?]
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