<p>My former co-blogger Paul Kiel catches the White House <a id="mdvo" href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/white_house_waterboarding_is_a.php" title="practically bragging">practically bragging</a> about CIA Director Mike Hayden’s <a id="romg" href="../../../view/haydens-humanity" title="Hayden’s waterboarding disclosure">waterboarding disclosure</a>. Here’s Paul on WH spokesman Tony Fratto:</p>
<blockquote>Fratto also apparently used the administration’s it’s not torture because "we do not torture" line. And "torture is illegal" and this was deemed legal therefore it’s not torture. You can choose your favorite tautology.<br />
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<p>For their own good, no members of the Bush administration should ever leave the country after January 20, 2009. They’ll have to build a whole new addition to the jails at the Hague otherwise.</p>




