“AND BEST OF ALL, WHEN IT COMES TO WATERBOARDING, YOU CAN USE THIS AMAZING CLOTH OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN …. HEY CAMERAMAN, DON’T WORRY IF YOU MISS A SHOT, I’LL BE HAPPY TO DEMONSTRATE THIS ALL DAY LONG.”

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Waterboarding meets the Water Pik, at All Hat No Cattle.

Madkane on Rick Perry’s tortured logic, in Secession? Did I Say Secession?

“AS THE REST OF THE WORLD SEES THAT HACK REPUBLICAN LAWYERS TORTURED THE LAW, THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY OF OUR PARTY WILL BE STRIPPED BARE LIKE A DETAINEE AT ABU GHRAIB.”

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BuzzFlash Editor Mark Karlin on Murder He Wrote: Why Aren’t Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Being Prosecuted? 

Madkane on the GOP: They Only Have Themselves To Blame.

Juan Cole on the Pakistan Crisis and Social Statistics.

“WE REALLY HAD NO CHOICE … THE OLD FUCKER REFUSED TO GIVE UP HIS SECRET RECIPE OF 11 MIDDLE EASTERN HERBS AND SPICES.”

“WE’LL BE FILING A CLAIM WITH THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION SEEKING ROYALTIES FOR THE LAST 59 YEARS, GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE KOREAN WAR.”

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“They were following orders,” by Lisa Casey.

John Boehner admits it’s torture – at Crooks & Liars.

Norm Jenson has The Daily Show’s hilarious The Stockholm Syndrome Part 1 and Part 2.

“THE ONLY REASON TO EMERGE FROM THE DARKNESS … IS TO PERPETUATE THE DARKNESS.”

“WE FOUND THAT IF THE DETAINEE HAD TUNA FOR LUNCH, WE’D HAVE TO WAIT AT LEAST 20 MINUTES BEFORE WATERBOARDING TO AVOID DROWNING HIM. BUT IF WE FORCED HIM TO FIRST EAT A HOT DOG, THE WATERBOARDING HAD TO BE DELAYED FOR 20 HOURS.”

Christine Bowman at BuzzFlash: For Torture Poster Boy and Advocate Dick Cheney, Darth Vader* Is Too Kind a Nickname. 

Lisa Casey on the Bushwellian tortured-talk.

Madkane on Rudy’s Family Values.

“I STILL REFUSED TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS AT ORAL ARGUMENT, BUT I DID CONDUCT MY OWN PERSONAL WRIT OF SEARCH-IORARI.”

The real story here.

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And on the big CIA torture story:

P. M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash on Obama’s long and labored path to doing the right thing.

Jon Perr on the GOP’s Seinfeld Defense of Torture.

Lisa Casey on the irrepressible Dickster.

“I ACTUALLY STARTED OUT AS THE ‘RIDDLER,’ BUT THEY WERE BECOMING PRETTY FRUSTRATED WITH THE ANSWERS THEY WERE GETTING FROM ME.”

Story at Emptywheel.

Madkane on Yet Another Ode To Republican Hypocrisy.

A different kind of “black tea,” at All Hat No Cattle.

Dan Kurtzman with The Week in Political Cartoons.

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