He also pressured the intelligence community to provide intelligence consistent with the administration's rationales for invading Iraq. Cheney was often criticized for the Bush Administration's policies regarding the campaign against terrorism, for his support of wiretapping by the National Security Agency (NSA) and for his endorsement of ' enhanced interrogation techniques' which several critics have labeled as torture. He publicly disagreed with President Bush's position against same-sex marriage in 2004.
He is of predominantly English, as well as Welsh, Irish, and French Huguenot ancestry.
His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S.
