Pres. Carter: US tortures prisoners, 'I know it'

The Raw Story has a great story & the video on the CNN Wolf Blitzer interview with President Carter:

Former president Jimmy Carter isn't just suspicious that the US is using torture to extract intelligence from detainees -- he's absolutely convinced.

Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if, by Carter's definition of the word, the United States had used torture during the Bush administration, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was adamant:"I don't think it, I know it," he said.

"Certainly."Pressed by Blitzer on whether that meant that President Bush was lying, Carter was equally clear."The president is self-defining what we have done and authorized in the torture of prisoners," said Carter."Yes."

Jimmy kicks Cheney’s Ass too:

Carter was equally outspoken in a Wednesday interview with the BBC, calling Vice President Dick Cheney a "disaster," according to Reuters.

"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military," he said of Cheney, adding that the vice president "has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world."