The Torture Queen Revises Her Story

How many times has she previously denied that the U.S. tortures, knowing all the while that she was directly responsible as a member of the team who authorized it?

Now that more information connecting her to those authorizations keeps surfacing, suddenly, it’s "We did, but we don’t any more."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday defended tough interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects approved by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, saying they were necessary to protect America from new attacks.

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But she acknowledged that those rules had since changed and that the United States was a "different place" then, adding that the administration's top priority at the time had been preventing new attacks and not necessarily observing fine legal points

  Newsweek

”Fine legal points.”

Before we were against torture, we were for it..

It's the "we torture when we need to, but not any other time" policy.