Cheney Seeks CIA Exemption to Torture Ban

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8DMATOO0.html

Cheney Seeks CIA Exemption to Torture Ban
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By DAVID ESPO and LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writers

November 05,2005 | WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in U.S. custody, according to participants in a closed-door session.

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The vice president made his appeal at a time Congress is struggling with the torture issue in light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and allegations of mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States houses about 500 detainees at the naval base there, many of them captured in Afghanistan.

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Cheney's appeal came two days before a former senior State Department official claimed in an interview with National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" that he had traced paperwork back to Cheney's office that he believes led to U.S. troops abusing prisoners in Iraq.

"It was clear to me there that there was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field," Lawrence Wilkerson, a former colonel who was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff during President Bush's first term, said Thursday.
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with a little side order of torture. Fugg off you fascist Cheney!!

he is a criminal. no different than saddam, no different than any other evil bastard.
he has let members of the military be jailed for what he created and has not tried to defend them or take reaponsibility. what an evil coward.

I am soul-sickened by this. They make me so ashamed and embarassed to be an American citizen with leaders like this. We cast off the Geneva Conventions and we embark on premptive war. It is all such an affront to the hundreds of years of our history to this point.

Hell, * and party have been torturing the American people with their poisonous agenda since 2000. To hear the Bloodthirsty Vice Goon still pushing this Evil after all that has transpired recently convinces me that BushCo is hell bent on going down in flames.

This Criminal Cabal is so totally captive to corporate interests it Will NOT-CANNOT change. Thus the public backlash to this criminal regime will eventually become so great that even many republicans will vote to impeach this worst of the worst administration if only out of political survival. At least that’s the way I see things generally unfolding over the next couple of years.

would have been right at home during the Spanish Inquisition. A sicker bunch of people never existed.

...none happens to be tourture. HMMMM something doesnt smell right here...

Here's a link to listen to Wilkerson's NPR interview online. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4987598
What do you all think about his claim that Cheney's office was secretly reading National Security Council emails?

"Twilight Eyes" where certain human beings are reptilian creatures beneath their human appearance, and thrive on human suffering. What a truly despicable person he is!

He openly flaunts his disregard for human life and basic human decency.....he has lost the ability to perceive that he is not "untouchable" and that his perceived power and his ever increasing abuse of it..will lead to his removal from power. But, it will happen. He will be removed..one way or antoher.

no doubt the 19% are torturers