Response to question comes as exception is sought for CIA

In the first place torture as a policy of this regime is documented.

And in the second, they are fighting to keep it that way.

Cheney holds hard line on detainee policy Vice president wages bureaucratic war against new restrictions, sources say

Updated: 12:15 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2005
"Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials."

I think most folks figger Bush is so stupid and amoral he'll say anything that comes to mind, expect him to lie. This one is so blatant even the most twisted neocon couldn't call it anything else.

Unless he meant that there were a couple who hadn't been tortured.