Mccain-Amendment

Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban

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Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss personally lobby Senator John McCain in an extraordinary attempt to exempt CIA officers from proposed legislation banning “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” of any detainee held by the U.S. government. Despite the Senate voting …

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