Despite the invaluable intelligence we were obtaining through the program of enhanced interrogation, in 2005 there was a move on Capitol Hill, led by Sen. John McCain & Lindsey Graham, to end it and require that all government interrogations be conducted under the rules of the US Army Field Manual.
In an effort to reach an agreement with McCain and explain to him how damaging his proposed amendment would be, the CIA Director and I met with him in a secure conference room at the Capitol and tried to brief him about the program and the critical intelligence we had gained. But John didn't want to hear what we had to say. We had hardly started when he lost his temper and stormed out of the meeting.
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The above quotations are from In My Time A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. Click here for other excerpts from In My Time A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney with Liz Cheney. Click here for other excerpts by John McCain. Click here for a profile of John McCain.
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