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 .
Lawrence Wilkerson criticizes Dick Cheney for defending interrogation methods . Interrogations aimed at finding `` smoking gun '' linking Iraq and al Qaeda , he says . By 2002 , U.S. officials decided `` we had al Qaeda pretty much on the run , '' he says . Representatives of former vice president decline comment on allegations .