ADMINISTRATION — CHENEY: IT ‘WOULD HAVE BEEN IMMORAL’ FOR US NOT TO TORTURE:Earlier this week, Vice President Cheney admitted to personally authorizing the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees. In a new interview with the Washington Times, Cheney stridently defended the program, saying, “I feel very good about what we did,” adding that he would “do exactly the same thing again.” He specifically defended the morality of torture. “I think it would have been unethical or immoral for us not to do everything we could in order to protect the nation against further attacks like what happened on 9/11,” Cheney said. He claimed that torture was “directly responsible for the fact that we’ve been able to avoid or defeat further attacks against the homeland for 7 1/2 years.” In fact, torture has endangered, not protected, American lives. Military experts say thatU.S. torture policies have been the single greatest recruiting tool for al Qaeda. A former interrogator who worked in Iraq stated unequivocally last month, “The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.”

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Glenn Greenwald explains the “rule of law” to Bill Moyers.

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