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And as cheney puts it, the torture program, as he calls it, was all his. it was all i was prepared to, and we did it, we got the authorization from the president and authorization from the justice department to go forward with the program. it worked. oh, but don't anybody say w. was the boy with the dirty work. the waterboarding and the rest of it from the beginning. that's a lie, cheney said, the president was in on it big time. this man knew what they were doing. sounds like bill clinton saying he was not having sex with "that woman." he wants full credit, doesn't want george bush getting of...

You know? he's wrong about everything. this report will eventually come out and he will -- well, he would be shamed if he were a normal person and capable of feeling shame. but this is going to be yet another black eye for his legacy. but he and his daughter are going to keep on swinging at the opponents. and, you know, they're not win, chris. i think public opinion is turning against them. but he's going to leave this earth insisting he did the right thing. >> it seems the most important message he wants to get across is to dare to speak against torture, to dare to speak against the iraq war ...

It didn't achieve any truths, but cheney has a certain look in his face, a certain grinding of the teeth. you see in his face, it was all legal, we were able to do that. the washington reported on what the senate intelligence committee reports, about the current and u.s. officials with knowledge of the report had to say about it. quote, the cia misled the government and the public about the torture program. two, it concealed the tales about the severity of the methods used. three, it overstated the significance of plots and the prisoners involved. and fourth, this is important, took credit for...

Acrimonyny. on the cia side, the justice department under obama has shown a real extreme reluctance to look at all of -- about any aspect of the torture program, at all. now that this has come back on them, in the most ironic possible way, about a cover-up, it's a real interesting question whether the justice department will decide it wants to go after the cia for covering up the thing that it wouldn't go after them for doing. >> you know, anthony, on some level, one can't imagine how no one could be sort of charged, or be forced to set down. and then on the same level, the implication here th...

>> and then the system seems to be working well enough. as the senate staff continued its multi-year study of the cia's torture program and began writing what is now a still unreleased report that is over 6,000 pages long. then in 2013 a document that the senate staff had been working with called the panetta review suddenly disappeared from the committee's computer system. >> when the internal panetta review documents disappeared from the committee's computer system, this suggested once again that the cia had removed documents already provided to the committee in violation of cia agreements an...