Lindsey Graham in In My Time, by Vice President Dick Cheney

On Homeland Security: 2005: interrogations must follow US Army Field Manual rules

The CIA developed a list of enhanced interrogation techniques that were based on the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Program used to prepare our military in case they should be captured. Before using the techniques on any terrorists, the CIA wanted to determine that they complied with the law, including international treaty obligations such as the UN Convention Against Torture. Out of that review process, which took several months, came legal opinions advising that the techniques were lawful The program was approved by the president & the NSC.

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 US government interrogations be conducted under the rules of the US Army Field Manual.

[We failed in] an effort to reach an agreement with Senator McCain and explain to him how damaging his proposed amendment would be.

Source: In My Time, by V.P. Dick Cheney, p.358-359 Aug 30, 2011

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 Lindsey Graham. Click here for a profile of Lindsey Graham.
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