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Report: Cheney advocated U.S. torture: Bush Delusional
by Open-Publishing - Saturday 26 November 20052 comments
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) — The U.S. practice of using torture on terror detainees was rooted in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, a former senior State Department official claims.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who served as former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, made the allegation to CNN, and said it was possible the practice was still going on.
"There’s no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so originated — in the vice president of the United States’ office," he said. "His implementer in this case was (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department."
Cheney is lobbying against a bill in Congress that would outlaw "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" of prisoners, and wants an exception for the CIA in cases that involve a detainee who may have knowledge of an imminent attack.
Earlier this month, President George Bush flatly denied there was a security policy of torture, saying: "We do not torture."
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27 November 2005, 03:48
Give Cheney and all advocats of torture a sample of their own medicine. The U.S. court system is worse than Russia and China ever was. The supreme court is a joke!
30 November 2005, 16:16
Bush says that he wants to know who leaked the identify of the CIA person. WEll, I suggest that he take Turd Blossom and Scooter to one of his secret CIA prisons and there subject him to some of the famous torture and abuse shown at Abu Ghraib and make them talk. I’ll bet that torture and abuse would be very effective on those Chicken Hawks, and that they would squawk their hearts out in just a few minutes. Of course, we all know he doesn’t REALLY want to do anything to Rove, his right-hand advisor, and that this is just another one of endless lies of our Chief Executive.