American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi by director Sebastian Doggart. Based on testimony from both supporters and critics, the film makes a number of damning accusations about her time as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Most explosive is the coverage of her role as chair of the group of 'Principals' (Vice-President Dick Cheney and then defense secretary Donald Rumseld were also members) who allegedly signed off on CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as water-boarding for terror suspects. That technique has been described as torture by defeated Republican presidential candidate "John McCain" and new Attorney General Eric Holder, among many others. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture to defend the actions of the CIA. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was in office during the events discussed in the report, said the report's criticisms of the CIA were "a bunch of hooey" and that harsh interrogation tactics were "absolutely, totally justified." He further said that he did not feel that the CIA misled him about the techniques used or the value of the information obtained from them, and that "if I had to do it over again, I would." John Yoo, author of the Torture Memos, criticized the report as a partisan attack on American intelligence agencies