“After he left office, former vice president Dick Cheney vehemently defended the practices of the Bush administration, saying in February [3] 2009, ‘If it hadn’t been for what we did–with respect to the terrorist surveillance program, or enhanced interrogation techniques for high-value detainees, the Patriot Act, and so forth–then we would have been attacked again.’ “
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Pages 115-116