"And we'll leave the waterboard out for ya."

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Props to the always-on Tom Bodett, who was one of the panelists on Wait Wait last weekend and who commented thusly on the defense of torture advanced by former Bush flunkies after Obama's release of the previously-classified memos, based on the end justifying the means the quality of the intelligence obtained through the efforts:

It was like accusing a shoplifter of stealing and the shoplifter saying “Well, call it what you want but look at all this great stuff I got.”