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COMMENTS: Vocabulary Watch
Continuing our search for the T-word…CBS' anchor Katie Couric has backtracked since Tuesday. Then she flat-out used the phrase "the topic of torture;" now she inserts a pusillanimous "what some call…" NBC's Andrea Mitchell used no stronger language for the abu-Ghraib abuses than "harsh techniques." CBS' David Martin pointed out that waterboarding "was once prosecuted as a war crime." CBS' White House correspondent Chip Reid did not beat around the bush. He referred to Barack Obama's discussion of the CIA's interrogations as "his remarks on torture" and he called Attorney General Eric Holder's probe of Justice Department lawyers an "investigation of Bush-era torture policy." Quite right too. No so-called or some say qualifiers for Reid.
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