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Cheney Offers Sharp Defense of C.I.A. Interrogation Tactics

Again, Dick says that torture's good.

Calvin Trillin

September 2, 2009

      —Headline in the New York Times

Again, Dick says that torture’s good, As waterboarders understood, Protecting us from those who would Have killed us in all likelihood. He’d change our values, if he could, To Dirty Harry’s Hollywood. Protect us? Yes, please, someone should– From those who think that torture’s good.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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