We Have Ways of Making You Talk

[burninglondon]

This is a special post by request.  It’s not the most topical thing I could write about, going by what’s in the news, but it is still important and still something we should be righteously indignant about.

I’m on the phone with a good friend of mine, a guy I consider to be pretty smart, at least more so than most.  The conversation is pretty

Comments

[burninglondon]

Sure. Go nuts. Seriously, if I wanted it kept private I'd engage the security protocols...or whatever they're called.

[spygrl1]

The technique dates back at least as far as the Spanish Inquisition.

And what is the Spanish Inquisition synonymous with? TORTURE!

[burninglondon]

You, young lady, get a cookie* for realizing what many highly trained lawyers would rather you didn't.

Honestly, I'm always amazed by the Republican capacity for self-delusion. Somewhere in his brain I'm sure Bush has a little hidden syllogism in his vast and complicated self-justification matrix that reads:

A: We don't torture.
B: Therefore, anything we do cannot be torture by virtue of A.
C: We waterboard.
D: Waterboarding is not torture by virtue of B.

*Offer void in all states whose name contains one or more vowels.