VP for torture

That should probably be Cheney's official title, according to Jimmy Carter's CIA Chief. He'd be a man of many titles, though - VP for swearing in the Senate, VP for cozy chats with Enron, VP for leaking CIA agents' identities. Hey, isn't that odd? It seems like Cheney isn't being terribly consistent, one day having his staff attack a CIA officers and subsequently ruining her usefulness in whatever terror-fighting the CIA does, and the next day championing a whatever-it-takes license to torture for the CIA? Actually, I think this might be consistent - after all, lots of folks in the CIA have said that torture isn't cool, and that it is likely to damage intelligence. So if Cheney's position is really VP for undercutting CIA effectiveness, he may be onto something.