The Daily Background
| Whatever the law says
Filed at 5:58 pm, Wednesday October 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Part of me still can’t believe we’re at the point where we have exchanges like this:
REPORTER: Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
REPORTER What’s your definition of the word “torture�
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
REPORTER: The word “torture.†What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t torture.
REPORTER: Can you give me your version of it, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: Whatever the law says.
As Andrew Sullivan says (link above), “Do you get the feeling that the president doesn’t know what the law says?”
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