The President of the United States is a Liar

From a press conference held on Aug. 7, 2007:

Q Thank you, sir. A two-part question. The New Yorker reports that the Red Cross has found the interrogation program in the CIA detention facilities use interrogation techniques that were tantamount to torture. I'm wondering if you have read that report and what your reaction to it is?

THE PRESIDENT: I haven't seen it. We don't torture.

In an extensive NYT times article today:

The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.

Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it.

Unfortunately Mr. Comey was wrong. I doubt there is any shame in this administration about the decision to use torture. These people care nothing about the US Constitution, International law and treaties or the rule of law. Their desire to "promote democracy" in the Middle East is a joke. They do not believe in democracy at home so how can they possibly believe in democracy anywhere else?

Lying about a bj gets you impeached. I wonder what lying about torture will get you?