President Barack Obama has met with the captain of a U.S. cargo ship who was held hostage by Somali pirates last month.
Cheney: Limbaugh over Powell
by Mark Silva
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who stood at the center of the Bush administration's push for "enhanced'' interrogations of captured terrorists, warns that the U.S. must be prepared to lose more lives if it's unwilling to carry on the fight.
And, as for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has suggested that he might have resigned if he knew what was going on and hadn't sat through any "torture meetings'' per se, well, Cheney suggests the general is no Republican.
Cheney said today on CBS News' Face the Nation that he isn't sure that Powell -- who served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for the first President Bush when Cheney was secretary of defense -- is still a Republican. Powell endorsed President Barack Obama's candidacy, he noted -- "I assume that's some indication of his loyalty."
Powell -- who says "the Republican Party is in deep trouble'' for following the lead of people such as radio's Rush Limbaugh -- says the party should reclaim the center.
Cheney said today, "if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh."
As for the enchanced iinterrogation techniques that the Obama administration has banned -- with Attorney General Eric Holder specifically calling waterboarding "torture'' -- Cheney maintains that they kept America safe.
Sanchez: 'Crossover' Of Interrogation Techniques
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was in charge of the ground forces in Iraq when some techniques detailed in the "torture memos" were used at the Abu Ghraib prison. He says the complex relationships between the Army, CIA and Special Forces blurred the boundaries of authorized interrogation techniques.
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