The Torture Lies Continue

I know it's the duty of a press spokesman to stand by the boss, but Dana Perino is setting a new level of lying. Is it really THAT bad? If you buy into this argument, it is.

Perino: ‘I absolutely feel comfortable’ lying about the Bush administration’s torture record.

Last week, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said unequivocally, “We did not torture.” This is a lie. In a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, Perino refused to retract her claim: When a reporter asked last week about reports that Obama’s team plans to review techniques for interrogating terror suspects, Perino said that the [...]