"No. No. Everything we did was -- you know, it had legal -- legal opinions behind it. Look, you're sitting there, you've captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He's the guy that ordered the September the 11th attacks. And we want to know what he knows in order to protect the United States of America. And I got legal opinions that said whatever we're going to do is legal. And my job is to protect you, Larry. And I've given it my all. I've given it my all."
-- George W. Bush, on Larry King Live last night, basically admitting that he got around "torturing" prisoners by having his lawyers play a clever game of Semantic Scrabble with the definition of the word
(h/t Cesca)
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