<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 &quot;we do not torture&quot; line. And &quot;torture is illegal&quot; 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>