“In a 40-minute conversation in the Oval Office with correspondents from The New York Times, Mr. Bush, seated in front of a crackling fire, ranged across a number of issues that he is expected to discuss in his State of the Union address next week. … On whether the administration had looser standards for interrogating terrorist suspects outside the United States, he said, ‘Torture is never acceptable,” adding, “nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture.’”
-Elisabeth Bumiller, David E. Sanger, and Richard W. Stevenson, “Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help,” NYTimes.com, January 28, 2005