Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100217:01:37:00
>> i was a big supporter of water boarding, i was a big supporter of techniques. >> with us tonight, a past witness to malfeasance, john dean, now author of blind ambition. john, great, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, keith. >> i have this correct, don't i? that dick cheney just admitted to a war crime? >> well he admitted to torture, which was a war crime. i'm not sure after the bush administration lawyers got finished with it, it was. at least he doesn't seem to believe it is. by normal beliefs, it is a war crime. >> i presume legally there's no way that constitutes a