“In his [May 21, 2009] address to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy organization in Washington, [Former Vice President Dick] Cheney said that the [enhanced interrogation] techniques the Bush administration approved, including waterboarding—simulated drowning that’s considered a form of torture—forced nakedness and sleep deprivation, were ‘legal’ and produced information that ‘prevented the violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people.’ ”
– Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, “Cheney’s Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths,” McClatchy Newspapers, May 21, 2009