"My Head Exploded When Obama Sanctimoniously Said, 'We Tortured Some Folks'"

[deurbano]

69. Then he is "humanizing" those doing the torturing, too:

"And it's important for us not to feel too sanctimonious about the tough job that those folks had. And a lot of those folks were working hard under enormous pressure and were real patriots."

To me, it seems more like "minimizing" the damage to the victims and and minimizing the culpability of the those who tortured (and those who authorized torture.. and those who facilitated torture... and those who ignored torture... and those who have wanted to forget and forgive without ever even attempting to pursue justice for the victims of that torture).

I'm glad he used the word "torture," though....but that just shows how terribly off-track the government, media (etc.) had gone-- that the use of the word "torture" to describe torture became so controversial.