Former Vice President Dick Cheney routinely led intelligence briefings for members of Congress. During one such meeting he defended the "harsh interrogation" tactics being used by the CIA as they were coming under critisism and congressional scrutiny. Republicans are charging that Democrats were aware of such interrogation methods and have no room to criticize the CIA. Once again our "leadership" is completely avoiding the issue at hand. First of all, they refuse to call torture what it is. Torture by any other name is still torture, and most experts agree that intelligence gathered through use of torture is virtually worthless. Secondly, while the Republicans and Democrats are playing he said-she said, neither party has done anything to ensure that the United States will honor the committment made when we signed the Geneva Convention.
The CIA's torture policy is harmful to our image abroad as it encourages terrorists to wage war against us. At the same time, if you're out torturing terror suspects it makes you look pretty stupid to accuse the Chinese of human rights violations. If elected I will encourage Congressional leadership to tackle issues such as this, rather than dancing around them.
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