"well, Torture, to me, Chuck, is a American citizen on a cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the trade center in New York City on 9/11. There's this notion that somehow there's moral equivalence between what the terrorists and what we do. And that's absolutely not true. We were very careful to stop short of torture. the senate has seen fit to label their report torture. But we worked hard to stay short of that definition."
-Former Vice President, Dick Cheney, 2014