This stupid fucker gets more clueless every day [if that was possible]
Then again, Rethugs make their own reality.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21148801/
Bush says U.S. 'does not torture people'
President responds to report that 2005 memo relaxed interrogation
rules
Updated: 10:25 a.m. ET Oct. 5, 2007
WASHINGTON - President Bush defended his administration’s detention
and interrogation policies for terrorism suspects on Friday, saying
they are both successful and lawful.
“When we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential
attack on America, you bet we’re going to detain them, and you bet
we’re going to question them,” he said during a hastily called
appearance in the Oval Office. “The American people expect us to find
out information, actionable intelligence so we can help protect them.
That’s our job.”
Bush was referring to a report on two secret memos in 2005 that
authorized extreme interrogation tactics against terror suspects.
“This government does not torture people,” the president said.
/excerpt
Of course not. They're 'extreme interrogation tactics.' EIT isn't
torture. If you look the t-o-r-t-c-h-u-r letter string doesn't exist
in extreme interrogation tactics. See? No tortchur.
article:
The two Justice Department legal opinions were disclosed in Thursday’s
editions of The New York Times, which reported that the first 2005
legal opinion authorized the use of head slaps, freezing temperatures
and simulated drownings, known as waterboarding, while interrogating
terror suspects, and was issued shortly after then-Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales took over the Justice Department.
That secret opinion, which explicitly allowed using the painful
methods in combination, came months after a December 2004 opinion in
which the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” and
the administration seemed to back away from claiming authority for
such practices.
A second Justice opinion was issued later in 2005, just as Congress
was working on an anti-torture bill. That opinion declared that none
of the CIA’s interrogation practices would violate the rules in the
legislation banning “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment of
detainees, The Times said, citing interviews with unnamed current and
former officials.
“We stick to U.S. law and international obligations,” the president
said, without taking questions afterward. /quote
Too bad this turkey and its minions aren't 'Pinocchio.'
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