We Have Ways... Bush's Bizarre Torture Definition/ State Secrets

Published: November 6, 2007, 11:34 pm

The American Conservative Nov. 5, 2007We Have Ways... Bush's Bizarre Torture Definition/ State Secrets /by James Bovard www.jimbovard.comOn Oct. 4, the New York Times blew another ten-foot hole in the Bush administration's torture cover-up. The Times revealed that the Justice Department produced a secret legal opinion in early 2005 permitting CIA interrogators to use combined effects on detainees, including head slapping, waterboarding, frigid temperatures, manacling for many hours in stress positions, and blasting with loud music to assure sleep deprivation. The Times labeled the memo as an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Within hours of the paper hitting the streets, President Bush issued the same moth-eaten denial he has used many times since Abu Ghraib: This government does not torture people. You know, we stick to U.S. law and our international obligations. But it is the

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