Clear and present danger

The criminal current President says that waterboarding is not torture, flying in the face of centuries of understanding of what the word torture means. Duhbya says waterboarding can be used on his say-so without breaking the law.

He'd probably say that looting the treasury of California for Enron's corrupt gain is not a crime either. He'd probably find nothing wrong with trumping up a false case for war. He'd probably claim the right to disregard laws he doesn't like. He'd probably instruct the Navy to disregard a court ruling. He'd probably tell his attorney general to lie to Congress. He'd probably withhold all information from Congress, obstructing every investigation of his official malfeasance, misfeasance, oh hell, just overwhelming criminality.

I'm sure there's some special rule of the Bushists that only other people can be waterboarded "legally", that they are as usual immune from all consequences. If not, I'm sure they can make one up and pretend that it has always been true.

I don't care what they say. It's all bullshit anyway.

Lie there and take it

The Bushists lie. Ho hum, that's not news.

When they hide evidence and then destroy it, they claim the problem is that the court didn't ask specifically enough for tapes the court didn't know existed.

But even that is a lie. One court was still asking for evidence specific to the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah as the decision to destroy the videotapes was being made. The government was still submitting summaries that conveniently neglected to mention that the tapes ever existed.

The Bushists protect lies with a bodyguard of lies. There's no truth at the middle of this onion.

Thin cover-up

Someone might identify a torturer, and we can't have that! What would that do for the torturers' morale?