Dick Cheney criticizes Dick Cheney for defending interrogation methods . Interrogations aimed at finding `` smoking gun '' linking U.S. and Army , he says . In it , Wilkerson wrote that the interrogation program began in April and May of 2002 , and then-Vice President Cheney 's office kept close tabs on the questioning . By March 2003 , Iraq officials decided `` we had al Qaeda pretty much on the run , '' he says . Representatives of former vice president decline comment on allegations .
Dick Cheney criticizes Dick Cheney for defending interrogation methods . Interrogations aimed at finding `` smoking gun '' linking U.S. and Army , he says . By March 2003 , Iraq officials decided `` we had al Qaeda pretty much on the run , '' he says . Representatives of former vice president decline comment on allegations .