Originally published on the CGS blog on June 25, 2007.
The WP blog carries an important piece from Gellman and Becker titled “Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power.” It highlights how the VP has been at the center of the Administrations interrogation policy development since January 11th 2002, the day CIA officials raised the challenges facing Guantanamo interrogators. The bloggers go on to note that:
“Cheney and his allies, according to more than two dozen current and former officials, pioneered a novel distinction between forbidden “torture” and permitted use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” methods of questioning.”
The whole piece is worth reading and it underscores the need for an Independent Bipartisan Commission on Interrogation/Torture .
