On Thursday The New York Times reported on the Justice Department’s secret endorsement of torture. Unsurprisingly this revelation sparked a new round of allegations and outrage from Democrats and Republicans alike and has spread through the Blogosphere faster than a 12 volt charge to the scrotum.

According to the New York Times article the Justice Department released a secret memo in 2005 which supported types of “enhanced interrogation” techniques. This secret memo is in direct contrast to the 2004 opinion from the same department that described torture as abhorrent.

Well, now the justice department is in full damage control mode, by which I mean they are flatly denying the allegations while refusing to comply with the requests of congress. Bush stated empirically yesterday morning “This government does not torture people”.

No sane man would ever have made such a bold statement with Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Kenya keeping extraordinary rendition in the news. Only in an administration so used to lying and getting away with it would a President stand before the American people and lie to our faces.

I have read several blogs defending these so called “enhanced interrogation” techniques so I think it is important to remind everyone what they look like. Watch this video and then try to defend these tactics. Warning: this video is graphic and should be offensive to all freedom loving people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0bxSqWMdo

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