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# Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'

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## Video: Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report

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_Published 2014-12-10. Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report_


by 

[Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/)


## Maya Rhodan


Dec 11, 2014 3:03 AM UTC

by 

[Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/)


## Maya Rhodan


Dec 11, 2014 3:03 AM UTC

In an interview that aired on [Fox News](http://video.foxnews.com/v/3935116934001/cheney-cia-report-a-terrible-piece-of-work/?intcmp=latestnews#sp=show-clips) Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney called the recently released report on the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11 a “terrible piece of work.”

“It’s a classic example of what you see too often in Washington where a group of politicians get together and sort of throw the professionals under the bus,” Cheney said.

He called the report, which found that the CIA misled the White House and used practices that could be classified as torture on detainees, “deeply flawed,” noting that the Senate Democrats that wrote the report did not interview any key subjects.

“We did exactly what needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9/11 and prevent a further attack,” Cheney said. “We were successful on both parts.”

He added, when the anchor pressed him on the fact that the report found otherwise, “The report is full of crap, excuse me.”

\[[_Fox News_](http://video.foxnews.com/v/3935116934001/cheney-cia-report-a-terrible-piece-of-work/?intcmp=latestnews#sp=show-clips)\]


## Transcript

[00:00] This report is the Frozen of Senate Intelligence CIA
[00:03] Clandestine Redacted Torture Reports. Let me go, let
[00:06] me go, don't hold me back
[00:10] in. I kid, of course, nobody is electrocuting Olaf for
[00:14] information. [ LAUGH ] Because he would melt

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