'It's clear Bush could stop Cheney,' Post reporter says of his expose

06/25/2007 @ 11:36 am

Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane

CNN spoke on Monday to prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman, co-author of a current four-part series exposing Vice President Cheney's dominance of US policy decisions.

Gellman first described Cheney's leading role in approving of enhanced interrogation methods, saying that "Dick Cheney decided early on, we're not going to win against al Qaeda unless we extract serious intelligence quickly from captured enemies, and he helped push through a fairly remarkable change in law, which was to establish a new distinction between 'torture,' which the United States government would not do, and 'cruelty.'"