Open Trackback & Comments Sunday

The “What They Say -vs- What They Do” Edition

Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counter-terrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

Send a trackback, or leave a comment, and ponder the simple fact that you can justify anything with the right sort of spin; as balbulican has been known to say on occasion, “a turd wrapped in tinfoil is still just a tinfoil-wrapped turd” — and torture, regardless of how you wrap it up, is still torture.

Man up George, you’ve lead your country into the modern age of torture – if you, and your people, believe you’re right why are you playing weasel word games with it?

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