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Sorry, but, this needs to be redressed... This treatment disgusts me to no end! Let's recap some of the previous statements from this Maladministration on 'torture' and how high up this went...

Brian Tamanaha wrote this excellent synopsis...

"We do not torture," declared President Bush in 2005.

A Justice Department memo begins with this declaration: “Torture is abhorrent both to American laws and values and to international norms.”

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino insisted about prisoners that “We don’t torture them.”

OLC spokesman Brian Reohrkasse said he could not comment on classified memos but insisted that they are consistent with the administration’s “strong opposition to torture.“

CIA Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell repeated that “the United States does not engage in torture. The president has been very clear about that.”

More such statements have been made in the past several years by Bush Administration officials.

Meanwhile, reports indicate that prisoners have been subjected to “slaps to the head; hours held naked in a frigid cell; days and nights without sleep while battered by thundering rock music; long periods manacled in stress positions;…waterboarding.” (NYT Oct. 4, 2007; above quotes also from NYT).

How could we repeatedly insist that “WE DON’T TOTURE” while engaging in forms of torture all along?

Easy: We had secret Justice Department memos which, relying upon serious and detailed legal analysis, concluded that “NOTHING WE DO IS TORTURE.”

That's right, short of major organ failure and death it's all good...

From the WaPo...

CRAWFORD, Tex., April 11 -- President Bush said Friday that he was aware his top national security advisers had discussed the details of harsh interrogation tactics to be used on detainees.

Bush also said in an interview with ABC News that he approved of the meetings, which were held as the CIA began to prepare for a secret interrogation program that included waterboarding, or simulated drowning, and other coercive techniques.

"Well, we started to connect the dots, in order to protect the American people" by learning what various detainees knew, Bush said in the interview at the presidential ranch here. "And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved."

The remarks underscore the extent to which the top officials were directly involved in setting the controversial interrogation policies.

I'm sure The Hague is taking notes...

I can cite a whole litany of Military experts and Psychologists that refute the notion of a 'ticking bomb' scenario and/or the reliability of the information obtained from torture, but, I'll refrain from doing so. You be the judge, is it torture...?