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Vice President Dick Cheney, 2006 (Image: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Content warning: This article contains descriptions of graphic and disturbing torture techniques advocated for passionately by former US vice president Dick Cheney over the course of his career in public life.

Dick Cheney died overnight, aged 84. He served as the 46th vice president of the United States under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and as secretary of defense under George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.

In so doing, he rose to become the most powerful and significant vice president in US history, profiting handsomely from the wanton destruction of the Middle East and shaping a world indelibly marked by the War on Terror fo

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