Check it with Chertoff.

Rick Perlstein's recent comparison of Dubya and The Sopranos is given more credence with the revelation that Homeland Security nominee Michael Chertoff also vetted torture law for the Bushies in 2002-2003. "While the details remain classified, one method that he opposed appeared to violate a ban in the law against using a 'threat of imminent death'...But Mr. Chertoff left the door open to the use of a different set of far harsher techniques proposed by the C.I.A." Hmmm...and you thought Tom Ridge knew some crazy uses for duct tape.