The New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - Stepping up a confrontation with the Senate over the handling of detainees, the White House is insisting that the Central Intelligence Agency be exempted from a proposed ban on abusive treatment of suspected Qaeda militants and other terrorists...Vice President Dick Cheney and the C.I.A. director, Porter J. Goss, urged Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who wrote the amendment, to support an exemption for the agency, arguing that the president needed maximum flexibility in dealing with the global war on terrorism.

McCain, to his everlasting credit, rejected the White House's exemption. The administration is threatening to veto the legislation. That would make President Bush's first veto, after six years in office, a veto to allow the CIA to torture prisoners. As usual, that old Ben Franklin quote about giving up liberty for safety is apt. As usual, here's to John McCain.

Bush and Chaney are junkyard dogs who should NO flexibility. Chain them up in Mr Bean's backyard I say!! - Dog lover in the West

Posted by  Anonymous @ 10:20 PM

 

Lets hope McCains wife isn't an undercover CIA operative, like Spongebob Squarepants....OOOOPS. - Didnt mean to let that slip

Posted by  Anonymous @ 6:54 PM

 

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