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From the Washington Post we learn that Cheney is trying to exempt the CIA from the legislation the Senate passed banning torture. Quite a step to take when we're supposedly not torturing people.

"This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely," said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. "In the past, they've only said that the law does not forbid inhumane treatment." Now, he said, the administration is saying more concretely that it cannot be forbidden.