Bush reserves the right to torture

Yesterday I wrote about how CIA Director Michael Hayden had admitted to waterboarding terror suspects.

Well, it's not necessarily a thing of the past.

Some members of the White House Press Corps decided to pursue the subject. Yesterday, during the daily White House press briefing, they got Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto to admit that George W. Bush reserves for himself the right to authorize the use of torture -- er, enhanced interrogation techniques -- in the future, too, as he sees fit.

Of course, they keep suggesting that waterboarding is not torture -- even though we convicted several Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American and Allied prisoners during World War II.

And they keep tapdancing around international and U.S. law.

This is what we have become.