What W Said

What he said, when you boil it down, was this:

• Torture works - not that we're torturing people, it's just "alternative methods of interrogation."
• The CIA should, in future, be allowed to use "alternative methods of interrogation."
• American interrogators who used "alternative methods of interrogation" should be granted immunity retroactively, even though we don't torture.
• We can't close Guantánamo because we have 'real' terrorists there now. And we know they're real because they said so - under "alternative methods of interrogation."
• We must allow the absolutely unprecedented admission of coerced evidence, gained by "alternative methods of interrogation," in an American legal proceeding.
• And Congress should do all of this now, despite being denied any role in this matter for years.

And you know what?

It doesn't surprise me in the least.