The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, June 24, 2004  

SIT DOWN, MR. SECRETARY
Torture? You Call That Torture?

In today’s “Reliable Source,” a Washington Post column mercifully no longer in the hands of Lloyd Grove (he’s since moved on to richly deserved obscurity in New York), Richard Leiby writes:

In a just-revealed notation on a 2002 memo about interrogation tactics, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld indicated that making terrorism detainees stand for up to four hours was no biggie in the physical stress department. “I stand for 8-10 hours a day,” Rummy scrawled. “Why is standing limited to four hours?”

Adjusting the time span proportionately, what say we make Mr. Big-Shot “He Wrestled in College You Know” Secretary stand for 16 to 25 hours without relief?

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