Cheney: "Can’t Claim Perfection" on No-Torture Policy

Posted on | January 15, 2009 |

Responding to accusations from a top Pentagon official that at least one Guantanamo detainee was tortured during interrogation, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged there may have been a “problem” with the way military personnel interrogated individual prisoners. “I can’t claim perfection,” he said on “News Hour with Jim Lehrer,” while reiterating once again the United States does not approve of or engage in torture as a matter of policy.

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