Powell's former chief of staff and retired U.S. Army Col. Larry Wilkerson spoke out on CNN's Late Edition yesterday about Cheney's guidance for the use of torture. The Bush team is really stuck in a media slump right now and those easy days of 2002-2004 are over. It's pile on time.
"There's no question in my mind that we did. There's no question in my mind that we may be still doing it," Wilkerson said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"There's no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so originated -- in the vice president of the United States' office," he said. "His implementer in this case was [Defense Secretary] Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department."
At another point in the interview, Wilkerson said "the vice president had to cover this in order for it to happen and in order for Secretary Rumsfeld to feel as though he had freedom of action."
