The WP and NYT both have editorials unleashing against Vice President Cheney’s effort to exempt the CIA from the McCain Amendment’s prohibitions against abusing detainees. The Post writes:

“Cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of prisoners is banned by an international treaty negotiated by the Reagan administration and ratified by the United States. The State Department annually issues a report criticizing other governments for violating it. Now Mr. Cheney is asking Congress to approve legal language that would allow the CIA to commit such abuses against foreign prisoners it is holding abroad. In other words, this vice president has become an open advocate of torture.

The headline: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html"VICE PRESIDENT FOR TORTURE.”