Bart Gellman and Jo Becker continue their excellent series on Vice President Dick Cheney with an exquisite piece on Cheney’s role in interrogations. At every stage in the post-9/11 debate, Cheney and his staff sought to enshrine torture as official U.S. policy, relying on a legalistic distinction between “torture” and “cruelty.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180553