Richard Cheney: “It's time the self-appointed strategists on Capitol Hill understood a very simple concept: You cannot win a war if you…”

This is al Qaeda operating in Iraq. And, as I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq.

The intelligence officers who questioned the terrorists can be proud of their work, proud of the results, because they prevented the violent death of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people.

The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al Qaeda.

When we get people who are more concerned about the let me think the -- let me think carefully how I describe this -- more concerned with reading the rights to an al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against…