Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy

Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy: "Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials."

So, the original torture memo and the leak both came from the Vice President's office, and now there's this. Those caricatures of Cheney are starting to make sense now.