4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding (and no, the 4th grader is not Bush, is an actual kid!)

[evildevil]

4th-Grader Questions Rice on Waterboarding

Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice was pressed again on the subject yesterday by a fourth-grader at a Washington school.

Rice, in her first appearance in Washington

Comments

[everythingonit]

Daaaaamn. She got got by a kid!

But you know, she deserves something for actually answering him. With an answer... kind of.

[irisira03]

Days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president,"

Someone should tell her that defense didn't work for Nixon, either.

[arisma]

Out of the mouths of babes... too bad she had to lie to him.

[flowerzenith]

"And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture."

So much for even acknowledging the Convention Against Torture if the President can just make anything okay anyway...

[shirozora]

I'd like to see that happen, just for one day. At least they can be brutally honest.

[teawithhoney]

i'd bet that most fourth graders are just regurgitating what they hear their parents say.