From today’s ‘Meet The Press’:

DAVID GREGORY: Do you wish you had the interrogation methods that were available to you during the Bush Administration? To get intelligence from a figure like this? [Deputy Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar]

GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS: I have always– been on the record, in fact, since 2003– with the concept of living our values. And I think that whenever we have– perhaps taken expedient measures, they have turned around and bitten us in the backside.

He went on to say that the non-torture techniques in the Army field manual on interrogations work; that in 2003 as commander of the 101st Airborne he prevented his troops from going beyond them; and that the damage to the U.S.’s reputation from torture at places like Abu Ghraib is “non-biodegradable,” a really nice turn of phrase. But Liz Cheney was deputy assistant secretary of state and she totally would have gotten that job if her last name was Jones so obviously she can explain to Petraeus why she’s right about torture and he’s just ignorant.