Bush-Cheney administration/torture

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There have been persistent reports, many of them documented, of official use of torture as a part of the War on Terrorism.

The first such incident to come to light was the Abu Ghraib abuses, but there have been others (e.g. Guantánamo).

Publicly, administration officials and spokespeople deny sanctioning or approving of torture.

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Apparently Senator John McCain tried to add an amendment to something (what? some kind of appropriations bill. I think...) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. Obviously a contradiction there.

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