Dick Cheney: To me, torture is what terrorists did on 9/11

CHUCK TODD, MEET THE PRESS: Let me start with a quote, you said earlier this week that torture is something to be avoided, and it implies that you have a definition of what torture is.

VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: Well, torture to me, Chuck, is an 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 the New York on 9/11.

There is this notion that somehow there is moral equivalence between what the terrorists did and what we do, and that is 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.