December 2007
4 posts
“What really sucks is the fact that I use “Premium Ink”. It costs...”
– Rick Harlow in response to $8000-per-gallon printer ink
And these are the dumbasses we let run our...
Q: Did the questioning of al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah conform with the interrogation program approved by President Bush? [...]
Ms. Perino: I will say that all interrogations -- all interrogations have been done within the legal framework that was set out after September 11th...All of the -- the entire program has been legal.
Q: Are you saying that whatever was done in this case was not torture?
Ms. Perino: I am saying that the United States does not torture. The President has been -- [...]
Q: But when you have a former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, now saying that waterboarding was used -- since you're saying the interrogations were legal; he's saying on the record now, waterboarding was used in at least one case. You're saying waterboarding is legal?
Ms. Perino: Ed, I'm saying I'm not commenting on any specific technique. I'm not commenting on that gentleman's characteristics of any possible technique. I've given you a very general statement about interrogations being legal, limited and --
Q: You just said it was legal.
Ms. Perino: I'm sorry?
Q: You said it was within the legal framework.
Ms. Perino: Yes.
Q: Everything that was done.
Ms. Perino: Yes.
Q: So waterboarding is legal.
Ms. Perino: I'm not commenting on any specific techniques.
“I must admit my favorite part of the Bible is when Jesus gets all mad and stuff...”
– The Daily Kos in response to Bill O’Reilly’s accusations that their readers are devil worshippers
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”
– Gloria Steinem