Cheney: 'We do not torture' even 'tougher customers'

Published: November 2, 2007, 11:30 am

by Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney, whom the London newspaper, the Telegraph, now calls the sixth most influential conservative in the United States, is on the road again making the case for the administration's war on terror. In Dallas today for questions and answers with the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, Cheney stopped in Indiana yesterday to address the American Legion. And he is speaking in some largely general terms about a terrorist interrogation program that is causing the Bush administration so much trouble lately including the hurdles that Michael Mukasey now faces in his confirmation as attorney general for refusing to call water-boarding illegal. The CIA deals with the tougher customers'' in its interrogation, says Cheney, maintaining that civil liberties have been respected.'' And Cheney, unlike Mukasey, has been read into'' the interrogation program, as President Bush puts it. So he knows the specifics of what he is

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