DICK CHENEY: No Regrets, No Apology

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who is widely believed to have been the driving force behind the CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" now described as torture in the controversial Senate report, reiterated his belief today (Sunday) that whatever the Bush administration did to protect America was both justified and effective.

Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press this morning, Cheney denied that the CIA engaged in torture and offered his own definition of the word. "Waterboarding, the way we did it, was, in fact, not torture." Instead, he said, "[Torture] is what 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box cutters did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11. Torture, to me, 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 New York City on 9/11."

Although he has been an outspoken critic of President Obama, Cheney cited the killing of Osama bin Laden on his watch as one of the positive results of the brutal CIA policies.

During the interview, Cheney dismissed the report out of hand. "[It's] seriously flawed. They didn't talk to anybody who knew anything about the program. They didn't talk to anybody within the program."