White House Defends 'a Dunk in the Water'
The White House said yesterday that Vice President Cheney was not referring to an interrogation technique known as “waterboarding” when he told an interviewer this week that dunking terrorism suspects in water was a “no-brainer.”
According to Tony Snow, the White House doesn't discuss specific techniques, because it's a matter of national security. He was especially adroit at the ole' White House Bob and Weave, but seemed to get clobbered somewhat in the video accompanying this story from the Washington Post. I won't tell you how he got clobbered, because that would violate national security, but suffice it to say it has something to do with the constitution Mr. Snow's boss was elected to uphold, but has done a particularly superb job of avoidance on that specific part of the job description, and the journalists in the room using the constitution to get information out of the government.
Hey Tony… it was a straightforward question - “What's a dunk?” What could a straightforward answer harm? I mean, come on… is the CIA actually going to let the people they pick up on the battlefield of the war on terror, which extends from our living rooms to the streets of Baghdad, keep the SCUBA gear they'll now carry when our “method” gets out, when they go into the interrogation chamber?
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