According to Associated Press, when discussing the case of the abducted German citizen flown off to Afghanistan for some spirited “interrogation,” Rice admitted to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US botched that affair, but most astonishingly maintained in spite of all the proof to the contrary, that the US does not use torture.
Rice, who is perhaps the most astute double talker in an administration manned by masters of mendacity, maintained a broad defense of our aggressive pursuit of “intelligence” as a practice not to be thwarted by any moral or legal concerns.
''This is essentially a war in which intelligence is absolutely key to success,'' Rice said glibly. ''If you are going to uncover plots, if you are going to get to people before they commit their crimes, that is largely an intelligence function.''
A nice way of saying that the end justifies the means. When citing 9/11 as an example of not having had previous knowledge that Osama bin Laden planned to attack us using stolen airpla
nes, Rice sidestepped the fact that we had the intelligence we needed to prevent the major terrorist attacks like the Sept, 2001 incident and that she herself played a role in keeping that data and indeed any concern with fighting terrorism from getting to the decision making level. The term liar simply fails to describe the ability of Fräulein Doktor Rice to make astonishingly untrue and contradictory statements with composure.With regard to the US operation of Soviet era Gulags and secret prisons, Rice offered the predictable:
''Were I to confirm or deny, say yes or say no, then I would be compromising intelligence information, and I'm not going to do that.''Nor is she going to be so crude as to say it the way her masters would: “ We will do whatever we want and say whatever we want so shut up or we’ll torture you too.”
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There is no torture in their world. They have defined it as any technique likely to induce major organ failure or death. Anything short of that isn't torture by their definition. Wonder what minor organ can fail without much personal trouble. So anything short of that is not torture but if someone dies doing this "coercion" they say "ooops, it was an accident so it wasn't intended to kill so it's also not torture." So really they is no such thing as torture for these evildoers.
In the Republican future words will only mean something for 15 minutes - or until they need to have them mean something else.
Heh...like Newspeak. You know, from 1984.
Exactly like Newspeak. The last few years read just like an Orwell novel.
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