Chuck Todd: “When you say waterboarding is not torture then why did we prosecute Japanese soldiers?”There's no way that the head signer-offer on the American torture program doesn't know that. It's manifestly ridiculous to claim that the people who authorized "waterboarding" as an administration-approved torture program were not aware and were never once reminded of the technique's long history or that America has prosecuted those that used the method as war criminals.Former vice president Richard B. Cheney: “Not for waterboarding. They did an awful lot of other stuff. [...]
So in answer to the eternal question, ignorant or lying: he's lying.
Any news outlet that lets something like this dangle there is a disgrace to the nation. If you can't hold your guests accountable for flagrant, outlandish lies about potential war crimes, then what the hell good are you doing for anyone.