The Fuckery of the Bush Administration

First off, he wants to use spy satellites to spy on Americans. Reichfuhrer Secretary Chertoff says that they'll protect our civil liberties, which is a statement that should result in alternating spells of hysterical laughter and vomiting, as the Department of Homeland Stupidity's sole real job is to pave the way for a police state.

Second, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, who is now a federal appellate judge, once wrote a memo approving the use of torture as long as the torturer thought that there would be no long-term harm, the same day he wrote a memo that defined torture as techniques that would cause organ failure or death. So if you wanted to tie Judge Bybee down and tap his nuts with a hammer or clip the electrodes from a hand-cranked generator to his ears and then turn the crank a bit, be assured that you are not torturing him. You are only "vigorously interrogating"him.