Obama: Cheney defends ‘torture’
Photo: cheney & US President-elect Barack Obama
US President-elect Barack Obama has criticized Vice President Dick Cheney for his public defense of "torturous" interrogation methods.
"Vice President Cheney, I think, continues to defend what he calls extraordinary measures or procedures when it comes to interrogations and from my view waterboarding is torture," Obama said in a Sunday interview with ABC News.
Earlier, Cheney defended the use of waterboarding, which simulates drowning, on three high-level al-Qaeda suspects.
Unlike "pull(ing) out somebody’s toenails in order to get them to talk," waterboarding "is not torture," Cheney said in an interview with CNN.
Referring to Guantanamo Bay, the president-elect who plans to shut down the detention center in Cuba said that he would not accomplish that goal during the first 100 days of his administration.
"It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize and we are going to get it done," he said.
"I have said that under my administration we will not torture," Obama concluded.
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