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: TalkLeft

Nixon, No Um, Rice: If The President Does It, It's Legal

By Big Tent Democrat

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Maureen Dowd recounts (apparently Cenk reported)

Condi Rice, who plans to go back to being a professor of political science at Stanford, got grilled by a student at a reception at a dorm there on Monday. . . . The student pressed [Rice] about whether waterboarding was torture.

“By definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture,” Ms. Rice said, almost quoting Nixon’s logic: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

The entire video, from Reyna Garcia, is worth watching.


Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 03, 2009 (boomark / email).

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