Asked about Cheney's 'no-brainer' statement about torture, "Bush on Friday again denied that the US mistreats detainees.
"This country doesn't torture. We're not going to torture," he told reporters at the White House.
"The CIA programme began after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, but Bush acknowledged its existence only last month. He says the questioning yielded valuable intelligence and prevented terror strikes after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
"But initial media reports last year that the US intelligence agency had kept and interrogated captured terrorist suspects at secret sites abroad caused an international outcry and investigations in Europe."
Update: A reminder of what waterboarding actually entails. No coward in this administration could take 5 minutes of this and not agree this is torture.
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