Reply #24: CIA should be able to engage in torture, Cheney claims

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Through U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, the Bush administration is seeking to exempt the CIA from anti-torture provisions outlined in a Senate bill.

Last Thursday, Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with the bill's sponsor, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in a bid to make the exception for national security reasons, The Washington Post said.

On Oct. 5, the Senate voted 90 to 9 to attach to the amended version of the pending $440 billion defense appropriations bill. McCain's provision faces stiff opposition in the House, which did not include similar language in its version of the spending bill, and the White House has threatened to veto any bill that includes the McCain provision, contending that it would bind the president's hands in wartime.

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Cheney is one sick bastard!!!