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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Detained in Prison by Doubletalk

Detained in Prison by Doubletalk: "Appropriately, the National Council of Teachers of English 2004 Doublespeak Award went to the Bush administration, in part because ''Jay S. Bybee, head of the Office of Legal Counsel, advised that, in order to be considered torture, the pain inflicted on a prisoner 'must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death'.''"

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