Reuters reports El Busho making the following statement:
"We are gathering information about where the terrorists might be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we do ... to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law."
Vice President Dick Cheney has been spearheading an effort on Capitol Hill to have the CIA exempt from an amendment by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain that would ban torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners.
(Source: Reuters Bush vows 'we do not torture', Nov. 7, 2005.) (Emphasis added)
Seems to me what Bush really said was that it is currently legal for the US to torture "suspected terrorists." Why else would Dick "Cattle Prod" Cheney be working to head off a new law forbidding torture?