Bush: 'This government does not torture'

[dajoki]

Bush: 'This government does not torture'

WASHINGTON (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/05/bush.torture/
VIDEO:http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/05/bush.torture/#cnnSTCVideo

President Bush on Friday defended his administration's methods of interrogating terrorism suspects, insisting, "This government does not torture people."

"When we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we're going to detain them and you bet we're going to question them, because the American people expect us to find out information, actionable intelligence, so we can help them -- help protect them," Bush said.

Bush said his administration sticks to "U.S. law and our international obligations."

He said, "The techniques that we use have been fully disclosed to appropriate members of the United States Congress." Watch Bush defend the detainee interrogation program »

Bush's remarks followed a report Thursday in The New York Times that said a secret Justice Department memo in 2005 amounted to "an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency."

The 2005 legal opinion was issued after then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took over Justice, the Times reported, and authorized using a combination of techniques such as head slaps, freezing temperatures and simulated drownings, known as waterboarding.

[musette_sf]

1. musette_sf: "That dog will not hunt" n/t

[texastoast]

2. BUSH IS A LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR

He should be impeached immediately.

[daninthemoon]

3. This government doesn't torture people. People in this government

torture people. Cause people running this government told them to. I still get sick when any of those abu gharab pictures surface. The whole story must be so much worse than we will ever know.

[bdamomma]

5. there is alot of stuff that is completely withheld from us, very

dangerous for us.

[librechik]

12. we outsource it to non-government types

our hands are clean

[bdamomma]

4. *STFU

stop lying and stop insulting all americans you sickening man.

[Vickers]

6. See, he can say this sort of thing and still feel he is telling the truth.

I mean, I doubt he considers Blackwater, CACI, Titan, etc. part of the gubmint.

[dajoki]

11. what about the CIA n/t

[halobeam]

7. Hey Bush: read MY lips: "I believe ya!

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. "Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction"

[PurityOfEssence]

9. No, this government IS torture.

Pure and simple.

[mark414]

10. "we just employ harsh interrogation techniques"

it's different, because we called it something different


George Orwell > Nostradamus