Asked about the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program, former Vice President Dick Cheney replied, “I’d do it again in a minute.” Many opponents of the program regard him as the relic of a time in which the United States was caught up in a national security panic. They are wrong: even with the benefit of hindsight, a majority of the American people are prepared to endorse what they regard as torture to safeguard the country. CONT.
William A. Galston, Brookings Institution
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