From CSM: "In a radio interview Tuesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed that US interrogators have used a controversial technique know as waterboarding to interrogate senior Al Qaeda suspects. McClatchy's Washington bureau reports that Mr. Cheney said the White House does not see the practice as torture, and allows the CIA to use it.".
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html

Here is a pres conference later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5sNwuVOWA

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