"Was it torture? I don't believe it was torture," [Vice President Dick Cheney] told the Washington Times on Monday, a week after the release of a unanimous Senate report concluding that the policies Cheney initiated were indeed torture. In fact, the Senate Committee concluded that the model for the Cheney-Bush interrogation policy was the torture practices of the Chinese communists during the Korean War....Retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson, who was [former Secretary of State under George W. Bush] Colin Powell's chief of staff, ...stated unequivocally that Cheney was the primary author of the torture policy.
--Robert Scheer (1936-), syndicated columnist, 28 December 2008
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