
While you were voting, phone banking, mastering delegate math or dodging a killer tornado in the Midwest, the Bush administration was busy finally admitting to and condoning torture.
CIA Director Michael Hayden chose stormy distracting Super Tuesday to concede for the record that the CIA used waterboarding to extract information from three Al Qaeda suspects. “In the most detailed public comments on a CIA program that had been shrouded in secrecy for years, Hayden said the agency had used simulated drowning to extract crucial information from terrorism suspects in 2002 and 2003,” reported The Los Angeles Times.
A day later, as campaign pundits tracked the delegate count, the Bush administration announced that waterboarding, which has been the subject of attorney general hearings and presidential debates, has been made legal. The L.A. Times quoted White House spokesman Tony Fratto saying waterboarding is legal and could be used “under certain circumstances.”

