Guardian spells out what Cheney said

I’ve often said you can learn more about what’s going on in the US by means of foreign media rather than local media. For example the way UK-paper The Guardian reported on Vice President Dick Cheney telling reporters he was cool with at least some forms of torture:

The use of a form of torture known as waterboarding to gain information is a “no-brainer”, the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, told a radio interviewer, it was reported today. Guardian

You’d never read it worded like that in an American mainstream paper. Let alone under the headline The Guardian published the article under on their front page: Cheney endorses simulated drowning

It’s only the truth. So why not say it?