Cheney: Bush 'Knew Everything' About CIA Interrogation Program

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in a recent interview that former President George W. Bush "knew everything" about the controversial advanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA and detailed in a recent Senate report.

In a recent interview with Fox News, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served under George W. Bush, said the president "knew everything he needed to know" about the CIA's interrogation tactics used on terrorists after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City.

Cheney added that he thought the recent report was "full of crap." The report, released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, suggested that the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA after 9/11 were kept secret from White House officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush, who was president at the time.

The former vice president added in the interview that the enhanced interrogation tactics used post-9/11 were an "integral part of the program" and that he and Bush "had to approve it before we went through with it."

The CIA did "a hell of a job and they deserve our gratitude," Cheney continued, adding that he'd "do it again in a minute."

The recent report on the CIA tactics has proven controversial as some have described the tactics used as torture. The Senate Committee report lists several tactics, including waterboarding, facial slapping, walling and yelling as some of the interrogation methods used against suspected terrorists after 9/11.

The two men who developed the interrogation plan for the CIA were former psychologists with the U.S. Air Force who had previously taught classes to special members of the military on how to survive torture if they were to be captured in a foreign land.