--- title: Dick Cheney: CIA Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap' description: “It's a terrible piece of work.” canonical: https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T03:03:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:45:40.662Z article:section: Politics og:title: “It's a terrible piece of work” og:description: Dick Cheney hits out over Senate report on CIA torture og:url: https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: “It's a terrible piece of work” twitter:description: Dick Cheney hits out over Senate report on CIA torture twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap' ## Video: Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report [Watch (HLS stream): Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/aiXbYq6e.m3u8) (0:18)  _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.” \[[_Fox News_](http://video.foxnews.com/v/3935116934001/cheney-cia-report-a-terrible-piece-of-work/?intcmp=latestnews#sp=show-clips)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/"},"headline":"Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'","datePublished":"2014-12-11T03:03:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:45:40.662Z","description":"“It's a terrible piece of work”","url":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/","keywords":["intelligence","CIA","Torture Report topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/","name":"Dick Cheney Says Senate Torture Report Is 'Full of Crap'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report","description":"CIA Director Brennan Speaks on Senate Torture Report","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fELLDOcb/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T22:34:43.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fELLDOcb.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/","duration":"PT1M24S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report","description":"Jon Stewart Reacts to Torture Report","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aiXbYq6e/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T12:36:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/aiXbYq6e.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/","duration":"PT18S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3629383/dick-cheney-cia-senate-torture-report/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```