“Hey hey CIA, who you wanna torture today?”
Anyone the White House tells them to, apparently:
White House Insists That CIA Should Be Allowed To Continue Torture Of Detainees
Exception Sought in Detainee Abuse Ban
By ERIC SCHMITT
10/24/05 “New York Times” – – Stepping up a confrontation with the Senate over the handling of detainees, the White House is insisting that the Central Intelligence Agency be exempted from a proposed ban on abusive treatment of suspected Qaeda militants and other terrorists.
The Senate defied a presidential veto threat nearly three weeks ago and approved, 90 to 9, an amendment to a $440 billion military spending bill that would ban the use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” of any detainee held by the United States government. This could bar some techniques that the C.I.A. has used in some interrogations overseas.
But in a 45-minute meeting last Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney and the C.I.A. director, Porter J. Goss, urged Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who wrote the amendment, to support an exemption for the agency, arguing that the president needed maximum flexibility in dealing with the global war on terrorism, said two government officials who were briefed on the meeting.</i>
Just to be clear, this is the White House saying that torture is ok and necessary. How did we get this far away from a moral center?
