G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was -- you know, it had legal -- legal opinions behind it. Look, you're sitting there, you've captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He's the guy that ordered the September the 11th attacks. And we want to know what he knows in order to protect the United States of America. And I got legal opinions that said whatever we're going to do is legal. And my job is to protect you, Larry. And I've given it my all. I've given it my all.
This has been a theory for many years now. "We don't torture (because we changed the legal definition of 'torture')." In other words, they deliberately redefined waterboarding as "not torture" so they could say with impunity, "We don't torture."