Torture in the White House!

Torture in the White House!
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While television's torture freak, Jack Bauer, tormented a suspect inside the White House this week, the real-life White House was again spotlighiting the last administration's Bauer-like fondness for "enhanced interrogations."

Plenty of Americans still agree with the FOX "24" star's passionate defense of torture to save lives. When an anti-torture senator yelled at Bauer in Monday's episode, he yelled back, "You sir are weak! Unable to look evil in the eye and deal with it!"

Back in the real world on the same day the Obama Administration struck a blow against past torture policy by releasing secret Bush-era memos showing that, among other things, the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.

Darn, that could have been our chance to see what a real-life Bauer looks like.

Craig blogs daily at craigcrawford.com on CQ Politics. Follow Craig on Twitter.

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