The former Vice President has successfully shifted the argument to 'torture worked, so it's ok'.

I remember when the Bush administration denied they were torturing anyone, and claimed that waterboarding wasn't torture.  They felt they had to, because they knew it was wrong.

Now that the lie has been exposed, and the crimes committed detailed, Cheney ... still clinging to some past authority he never should have had ... is trying to shift the focus. And it's seems the media is going along with him.

So I'm going to hopefully clarify this.

America has due process of law.  We do not hold people without charges, and we do not use cruel and unusual punishment.  These are key principles of the constitution, and are about basic human rights.

So, if we are to defend our country and these principles, America does not torture.  It does not matter what the result was.  It is wrong.

We fight our enemy, but we do not become our enemy.