Eye of Darkness

What shocks the conscience [is to some extent] in the eye of the beholder.

VP Cheney, December 18, 2005 (on Nightline, talking about torture & cruelty (cruelty defined by The Supreme Court as an act that "shocks the conscience").

It's Just Tough Love

We don't torture.

VP Cheney - fall 2006
WaPo article on Cheney's efforts to find ways around the Geneva Conventions.