June 8th, 2004

No surprise here, except that he still thinks he can get away with accusing legislators doing their oversight job of weakening the war effort.

Let me be sure I have this straight: we’re not torturing anyone, but revealing our legal position on what we can and can’t do would weaken the fight against terror?

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