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Says Bush, all while Cheney is pushing for exceptions to McCain’s anti-torture bill in the Senate. Exemptions would include the CIA, who are rumored to have covert jails in Eastern Europe & Thailand (which have been made unavailable to the proper international human rights agencies and unknown to most of Congress, who are supposed to oversee covert operations.)

Also see a very interesting New Yorker article on the torture issue. Among the many items mentioned (including some of the above), the most unbelievable is this:

The Bush Administration has resisted disclosing the contents of two Justice Department memos that established a detailed interrogation policy for the Pentagon and the C.I.A. A March, 2003, classified memo was