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“We asked the agency to go take steps and put in place programs that were designed to catch the bastards who killed 3,000 of us on 9-11 and make sure it didn’t happen again, and that’s exactly what they did, and they deserve a lot of credit,” he said, “not the condemnation they are receiving from the Senate Democrats. ”

The Senate intelligence committee’s report doesn’t urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe. But the threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a UN special investigator demanded those responsible for “systematic crimes” be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.

Former Vice-President Dick Cheney pushed backWednesday, saying in a Fox News interview that the Senate report “is full of crap” and said it was a “flat-out lie” to say President George W. Bush didn’t know about details about the interrogation program.

“He knew certainly the techniques,” Cheney said on Fox News. “We did discuss the techniques. There was no effort on our part to keep him from that.”

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In no uncertain terms, Cheney said the CIA’s approach to interrogating terror suspects was necessary after the 9/11 attacks, and the people who carried them out were doing their duty.

“How nice do you want to be to the murderers of 3,000 Americans?” he asked.