{"id":2017,"date":"2005-11-14T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2005-11-14T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:43:02","slug":"new-orwellian-bushspeak-phrase-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"New Orwellian BushSpeak Phrase of the Moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Hadley_111305.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">&#8220;Torture&#8221; is not really torture. It is now officially: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20051113\/ts_afp\/usattackstorture_051113232322\">&#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That, according to National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley yesterday whose latest job, it seems, is to clarify that when <a href=\"http:\/\/rds.yahoo.com\/S=53720272\/K=bush+we+do+not+torture\/v=2\/SID=e\/TID=N001_71\/l=NSR\/R=1\/SIG=12stm7bjg\/EXP=1132090605\/*-http%3A\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=1289078&#038;CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312\">Bush said last week<\/a> &#8220;We do not torture,&#8221; what he <i>really<\/i> meant to say was &#8220;We <i>do<\/i> torture, but we just refer to it as &#8216;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; so we can trick ourselves into being able to sleep at night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Torture&#8221; is not really torture. It is now officially: &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221;. That, according to National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley yesterday whose latest job, it seems, is to clarify that when Bush said last week &#8220;We do not torture,&#8221; what he really meant to say was &#8220;We do torture, but we just refer to it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}