Cheney: Bush ‘Knew’ about Torture and ‘He Approved It’

Another fallout from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s terror funplex enhanced interrogation techniques released this week was that then-President George W Bush was kept in the dark about the CIA’s program until 2006. That, his Vice President alleged Sunday morning on Meet the Press, is bollocks.

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“This man knew what we were doing,” Cheney said. “He authorized it. He approved it. A statement by the Senate Democrats, for partisan purposes, that the president didn’t know what was going on is just a flat-out lie…The president writes about it in his own book!”

Watch the clip below, via NBC News:

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