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[L. Coyote]

A Question Bush Can't Answer
By Dan Froomkin - Oct 18, 2006 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/10/18/BL2006101800799.html


There are a lot of questions -- about a lot of things -- that President Bush can't seem to answer.
But Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, of all people, asked Bush one of the most important ones in an interview aired last night.
This one was about torture.

Here's the transcript (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,221975,00.html); here's the video (http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?101706/101706_oreilly_bush3&OReilly_Factor&Pres.%20Bush%2C%20Part%202&President%20Bush%20on%20O%26%2339%3BReilly%2C%20Pt.%204&Politics&309&News&180&&&col).

O'Reilly raised the issue of waterboarding, a particularly appalling technique that CIA interrogators reportedly used on terror suspects.

O'Reilly: "Is waterboarding torture?"

Bush: "I don't want to talk about techniques. But I do assure the American people that we were within the law and we don't torture. I have said all along to the American people we won't torture. But we need to be in a position where we can interrogate these people."

Then came the question I've been waiting for someone to ask. ............

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