Gingrich Changes His Position: \u2018Waterboarding Is, By Every Technical Rule, Not Torture\u2019<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack in 2009, when the public debate on torture ramped up after President Obama released the Bush-era memos authorizing torture techniques on terror suspects, a Fox News host asked Newt Gingrich if he…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, let's be sure to defend a moral disaster and pragmatic waste of time on the basis of (a poor reading of) "technical rules." Just the president we want. #ddtb Embedded Link Gingrich Changes His Position: \u2018Waterboarding Is, By Every Technical Rule, Not Torture\u2019 Back in 2009, when the public debate on torture ramped up … Continue reading “I don't think it's technically torture, so it must be okay!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/truth-justice-and-the-secret-annex-of-completely-legal-torture-methods-way.html","url_meta":{"origin":24131,"position":0},"title":"Truth, Justice, and the Secret Annex of Completely Legal Torture Methods Way","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Nov-11 7:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because overturning a no-torture executive order and instead mandating a classified set of \"enhanced interrogation techniques\" in a Defense spending bill is what America is all about, right? 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