Dick Cheney wants enhanced interrogation program ‘active and ready to go’

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he favors keeping enhanced interrogation techniques around as an option, a day after President Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA said she would not use those methods, which many describe as torture.

“If it were my call, I would not discontinue those programs. I’d have them active and ready to go,” Cheney told Fox Business in an interview that aired Thursday morning. “And I’d go back and study them and learn.”

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