ALL questions about Torture REMOVED from white house transcript

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060621-6.html

Unless I hallucinated it, I heard a reporter ask one of the foriegn leaders in Europe a couple questions about Bush and his stance on kidnapping and torturing prisoners in secret camps across Europe.

On the official white house website, the very word torture has been scrubbed.

[dogday]

1. Censorship in the American Press nt

[originalpckelly]

2. Watch the C-Span version of the video...

that will help you find out what was said. I didn't so I am interested to see if this happened. I think it is very plausible.

[WhiteTara]

3. that can't be! I just heard

the monkey say that we have an open and transparent government! I am shocked! Shocked I say! :sarcasm:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. How can anyone in this administration answer ANY question about

torture and pretend to be repelled by it? They've openly embraced it, condoned it, written memos about it, implemented it. They have personally turned back the clock of civilization.

[Chimichurri]

6. If they know it produces bad intelligence AND we can't use

the bad intelligence if aquired by torture in court, why do they insist on torturing? It boggles my mind.

[Philosoraptor]

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