By US federal statute, torture is illegal. President Obama has had released the so-called "torture memos," which clearly show how we've tortured people.
Now former-VP Dick Cheney is complaining (as are others) that releasing these memos without also releasing other classified documentation that attempts to indicate how torture has benefited the USA (and which, they contend, would balance the argument in favor of torture), would be to tell a one-sided story, of which they contend it would be unfair to tell only part.
This is like saying that all the bank robbers who gave the money they stole to other people could somehow justify their thefts if they could indicate how those people who received that money benefited from it.
Bank robbery is still illegal. Torture is still illegal. There isn't any defense of either.
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