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Rich Gardner | 03.10.2010
Did President G.W. Bush "authorize torture"? Perhaps not, but the assertion by Karl Rove that Bush didn't reminds me of the famous Clinton statement "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I don't think Rove is precisely lying in his sentence. Not precisely, anyway. Karl Rove writes in his memoir: "[T]he president never authorized torture. He did just the opposite by making sure the EITs [enhanced interrogation techniques on high-value terrorist detainees] did not cross the legal line into torture."
Of course, this immediately reminded me of Bill Clinton's famous line: 
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