CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding.
There is not a court in the United States or in the world that does not consider waterboarding torture. The Red Cross certainly does, and it’s the governing body in international law. It is certainly torture according to the UN Convention on Torture and the Geneva Conventions. The British government, America’s closest Western ally, certainly believes it is torture. No legal authority of any type in the US or the world has ever doubted that waterboarding is torture. To have subjected an individual to waterboarding once is torture under US and international law. To subject someone to it 183 times is so categorically torture is it almost absurd to even write this sentence….
So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. I repeat: the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime. There is no statute of limitations for such a crime; and the penalty under law is either the death penalty or a prison sentence for life…
