Low Blow - Cheney - Rumsfeld - Talk Up Waterboarding

BY Helen Kennedy DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Credit exactly where credit history is due

Does original President George W. Bush deserve some credit rating for the actual flourishing procedure to get rid of Osama Bin Laden?

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A parade regarding former Bush government administrators resolved to go around the Sunday political indicates to be able to talk up waterboarding and also assert some sort of measure with credit with regard to bagging Osama Bin Laden .

Former Obama government nixed as torture - "probably" performed a position within monitoring down Bin Laden in addition to must be added back.

"It had been a superb program. It was authorized program. It was not torture," Cheney told Fox News Sunday. "I would certainly strongly highly recommend we keep on it."

Former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld known as the item "a mistake" to eliminate waterboarding. "It's very clear that will individuals techniques how the CIA used worked," this individual claimed on CBS .

Officials include mentioned the main element that will acquiring Bin Laden had been locating their courier. Captured terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed presented the actual courier's nickname in 2003 soon after becoming waterboarded 183 times.

Torture opponents say Mohammed in no way threw in the towel the important name, perhaps within so-called "enhanced interrogation," and also suggest normal questioning probably have worked better.

Further, they will state torture is a betrayal connected with American values, whether it operates or perhaps not.

Rumsfeld mentioned he thought Obama created "the right decision" for you to risk it on some sort of SEAL raid, but added, "I can have chosen much less discussion out of your regarding intelligence, personally."

Last week, this Daily News reported which original rejected an invite for vacations Ground Zero with President Obama mainly because he / she thought Obama wasn't discussing credit score with the raid. His dependable helps wanted to switch the particular narrative Sunday.

Former Secretary regarding State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged Obama's "brave decision," nevertheless anxious how the operation - which usually your lover called a "victory throughout presidencies" - required several years recreate up.

"You never merely stumble customers Osama Bin Laden. It will take loads of work to find there," she explained with CNN . "These leads developed a serious number of years ago."

Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff claimed with NBC , "Both presidents deserve a lot of credit rating pertaining to maturing the tool more than 10 years."

On Saturday, an old Bush leader associated with workforce Andrew Card belittled Obama's visit in order to because grandstanding.

"I assume she has pounded their upper body a little too much," Card instructed the German magazine Der Spiegel . "He usually takes pride in it, nonetheless this individual won't should indicate the item so much."

Card oversaw one of history's worst-conceived presidential triumph laps: while his boss donned a flight suit in order to aircraft in order to an aircraft carrier draped having a banner announcing "Mission Accomplished" within 2003, simply just several several weeks in the warfare that nevertheless rages.