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Richard Cheney: “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is, they put out the legal memos, the…”

On the recordApril 19, 2009
One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is, they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of -- of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort.

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Cheney criticizes the release of interrogation memos for not including information on the successes of those methods.

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