Former CIA Director Dubs Cheney "Vice President of Torture", Does Not Believe Bush
"A former CIA director has claimed that torture is condoned and even approved by the Bush government. The devastating accusations have been made by Admiral Stansfield Turner who labelled Dick Cheney 'a vice president for torture'.
He said: 'We have crossed the line into dangerous territory'....
The former spymaster claims President Bush is not telling the truth when he says that torture is not a method used by the US. Speaking of Bush's claims that the US does not use torture, Admiral Turner, who ran the CIA from 1977 to 1981, said: 'I do not believe him.'
On Dick Cheney he said 'I'm embarrassed the United States has a vice president for torture. He condones torture, what else is he?'.
Admiral Turner claims the secret CIA prisons used for torture are known as 'black sites', terror suspects are picked up in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan. "
Navy Admiral Stansfield Turner, a highly respected figure, served as president of Naval War College from 1972 to 1974 and was subsequently director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. He is now a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park's School of Public Policy.
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