Did the CIA vindicate Dick Cheney?

The CIA releases two reports Cheney has said would prove that “enhanced interrogation” works

For months now, Dick Cheney has sought vindication from two CIA documents, said Spencer Ackerman in The Washington Independent, that he said would “refute critics of the Bush administration’s torture program.” Well, now the CIA has released the 2004 and 2005 reports, and “strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims” that “enhanced interrogation” provided valuable information. Actually, they sometimes “suggest the opposite.”

With the amount of information redacted, I’d say the verdict for Cheney is: “Inconclusive,” said Allahpundit in Hot Air. The two reports show that intelligence from Al Qaida detainee interrogations “helped stop terror attacks,” but they don’t say if “any enhanced techniques were used” in those interrogations.

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