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They Said It, Not Us: Torture

In the debate over how to treat terrorism suspects, Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland earlier this week made a mistake. Instead of towing the administration line—don’t mention the word torture, use terms like aggressive interrogation techniques – the George Republican “proudly boasted to a local Chamber of Commerce that he had “voted for torture”.” Link

Later, Westmoreland said “he probably should have “put that another way”.”