Dick Cheney still maintains that the Bush administration didn't torture anyone. But the vice president's definition of that term is narrow and, well, tortured. Now that even Susan J. Crawford, the senior Bush administration official in charge of that administration's kangaroo military commissions, used the "t" word to describe what the administration did to one prisoner, the administration admitted to committing a war crime under international law.
Therefore, a criminal investigation must be launched because the same techniques used on that prisoner – isolation, sleep deprivation, threats by attack dogs, exposure to prolonged cold, and sexual and other humiliations – were used on many other detainees in U.S. custody. And the investigation must involve all relevant officials, including George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
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