Washington (AFP) - President George W Bush was fully aware and an "integral part" of the CIA's torture of terror suspects, his vice-president Dick Cheney said Wednesday.
The long-awaited US Senate report released Tuesday on the program of harsh treatment and torture of detainees said Bush only learned details of it in 2006, four years after it started in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Detainees were beaten, waterboarded -- some of them dozens of times -- and humiliated through the painful use of medically unnecessary "rectal feeding" and "rectal rehydration", the report said.
Speaking to Fox News, Cheney denied Bush was kept out of the loop. He said the then-president "was in fact an integral part of the program and he had to approve it."
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4 comments:
Cheney is a traitor and a war criminal. Not to mention a draft dodger.
Cheney is a true Patriot and a hero to America.
The only thing Cheney is beholden to Halliburton. Patriot my arse.
Halliburton was used by Bill Clinton more than any other President. That's a tired old empty statement anyway.
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