This is right out of the Democrat talking points and the leftist media playbook.
The CIA interrogations, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib are three distinctly different things.
The CIA, not being a military organization, was the only organization authorized to do "enhanced interrogations". The "Torture memos" gave specific permission to the CIA and the CIA only. These interrogations were generally done in third countries (see leftist talking point "CIA Secret Prisons" and leftist talking point "Extraordinary Rendition") The Army, being a military organization, used the Army Field Manual for interrogations.
Guantanamo is military run, not CIA, and has primarily housed Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured in Afghanistan, and other terrorists captured in locations not associated with the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. I do not know of reports of many Iraqi captured in Iraq being sent to Gitmo. Iraq had a lot of prisons, so it was easy to just keep captured prisoners in Iraq.
I don't understand what the big deal about Guantanamo is. There have not been any major scandals from Guantanamo. There was Newsweak's false scandal of the Koran desecration. But no stories of "torture". Simply put, Guantanamo has no place in the conversation on "abuse" or "enhanced interrogation" or "torture".
As I understand it, Abu Ghraib was mostly a prison used to house criminals, rather than high-value terrorist detainees. That is probably why Army Reserve MPs worked Abu Ghraib, while active duty military guards and military interrogators worked Gitmo.
The left is inventing its own narrative. And only Cheney is defending the CIA, Guantanamo, and the military.
Cheney deserves a medal.
The MSM is a joke.