Bush's Dangerous Torture(d) Stance« Thread Started on Oct 8, 2007, 1:39am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bush's Dangerous Torture(d) StanceFriday, Oct. 05, 2007 By MASSIMO CALABRESI / WASHINGTON Segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, August 2005.Richard Ross / WPNArticle read at source> http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... .htmlEvery time the Bush Administration is accused of torture, the response from the White House is immediate and unequivocal. When the New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that the Justice Department had issued a secret legal opinion in 2005 approving a combination of particularly tough interrogation tactics, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture", President Bush said curtly, "We don't torture." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------