In an interview on This Week on February 14, 2010, former Vice President Dick “Cheney strongly defended waterboarding, the enhanced interrogation technique assailed by [President] Obama and what many consider to be torture. ‘I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques,’ he said. Cheney added that he opposed the current administration’s move to do away with it.”
– Huma Kahn and Rachel Martin, “Vice Presidents Face Off: Dick Cheney and Joe Biden Go on the Offensive,” ABC News, Feb. 15, 2010