{"id":128,"date":"2005-11-08T09:11:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T13:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=128"},"modified":"2005-11-08T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T13:11:54","slug":"semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/11\/semantics\/","title":{"rendered":"Semantics…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We’ll do it under the law”–of the country where the prison is…
\n“We do not torture”–but let them<\/em> do it; we are there to record the information obtained…
\nSometimes I think people in power believe everybody else outside that sphere are idiots (the rest of the time I just feel it…)
\nBush Defends CIA’s Clandestine Prisons<\/a><\/p>\n

\nBrushing aside international criticism of the CIA-run prisons set up in eight countries, Bush said that the nation is at war with an enemy “that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again. And so, you bet, we’ll aggressively pursue them, but we’ll do so under the law.” Bush, who spoke to reporters during a brief visit to the capital of Panama, also asserted, “We do not torture.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We’ll do it under the law”–of the country where the prison is… “We do not torture”–but let them do it; we are there to record the information obtained… Sometimes I think people in power believe everybody else outside that sphere … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}