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...Dick Cheney...
...FALLOUT Human-rights groups read the reply as backing waterboarding, a torture technique. Cheney said dunking isn't waterboarding...
Facial symmetry appeals to us too. Dick Cheney's least trustworthy feature is easily his smile, a lopsided thing that makes him look as if half his face is pleased with something while the other half is paying bills. Research at Columbia University revealed that when some people see fleeting, subliminally projected images of fearful faces, their brain's fright center lights up. If fear is infectious, perhaps a dishonest face makes us feel similarly slippery or a surly face leaves us feeling sour--hardly what politicians want to stir up in voters...
...Souza defended the U.S. practice of “water boarding,” a method of interrogation that simulates drowning. Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview that dunking terrorist suspects in water was a “no-brainer,” sparking debate over whether he had endorsed “water boarding”—a practice prohibited by the Army and considered torture by many human rights groups and international courts...
...person familiar with Tenet's nearly finished manuscript. "The facts are pretty compelling." Despite his insistence that he will play nice, Goss could join Tenet in shedding light on a number of major issues. They range from Bush's handling of Iraq and the extent of Vice President Cheney's influence over national security policy to Goss's view on the effectiveness of John Negroponte as the nation's first director of national intelligence. Goss was supplanted as the last DCI when Negroponte took over the newly created position of DNI in April 2005. About a year later, Negroponte ousted...