Colin Powell's former Chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, stated bluntly that it was Vice President Dick Cheney's office which triggered abuse of Iraqi prisoners with word that filtered down to soldiers in the field that interrogations were not providing needed intelligence. Now, Cheney goes one step further, by appealing to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in US custody.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505A.shtml

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Explosive Interview:

Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson on Prewar Intel, Murder and Torture

By Democracy Now!

How a White House "Cabal" Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy
Audio and Transcript.

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