January 22, 2009
IT ISN'T TORTURE ON A DEMOCRAT'S WATCH AT ANY RATE:
Obama CIA choice won't call waterboarding torture (Reuters, 1/22/09)
President Barack Obama's choice to head the CIA declined on Thursday to call waterboarding "torture," only days after his attorney general nominee condemned the interrogation practice as precisely that.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 22, 2009 4:03 PMRetired Adm. Dennis Blair replied cautiously when pressed on the waterboarding question at a hearing on his nomination to be director of national intelligence.
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