Responding to Startling 'NYT' Story: White House Denies 'Torture'

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Responding to Startling 'NYT' Story: White House Denies 'Torture'



Published: October 04, 2007 12:40 PM ET

WASHINGTON The White House on Thursday denied reports that a secretly issued Justice Department opinion in early 2005 cleared the way for the return of painful interrogation tactics that the Bush administration had earlier seemed to renounce.

"This country does not torture," White House press secretary Dana Perino told reporters. "It is a policy of the United States that we do not torture and we do not."

Under then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' leadership, the Justice Department issued a secret opinion in 2005 authorizing use of painful physical and psychological tactics against terror suspects, including simulated drownings and freezing temperatures, The New York Times reported Thursday's editions.

That secret opinion, which explicitly allowed using the painful methods in combination, came a year after a 2004 opinion in which Justice publicly declared torture "abhorrent" and the administration seemed to back away from claiming authority for such practices......

[Warpy]

1. Harrumpf! WE certainly tortured no one!

It's hard on the manicure!

[opihimoimoi]

2. The BULLIES LIE again...that ALL THEY DO....LIE, DENY, and BS

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

3. Human rights violations and war crimes. Barbaric criminals-in-charge,....

,...and still free to torture!

DAMN!!!

[Xipe Totec]

4. This country does not torture

This country outsources torture.

[librechik]

5. it's certainly not torture. It's an " enhanced interrogation technique"

That's what the lawyers told her to say--that lawyers who have desperately avoided any judgement call on their legal opinions, over and over for years. What they say (until the Supreme Court reviews it, and they will sell their grandmothers before they will let that happen) goes.

If it was good enough for the Nazis, it's good enough for the nazis.