Sidney Blumenthal calls Condi a liar

He parses her "we don't torture so back off" speech she made before embarking on her latest European trip and concludes:

Rice's legal interpretations were authoritative, bland and bogus. It is hard to say whether they should be called Orwellian for their intentional falsity or Kafkaesque for their unintentional absurdity.

Link to Salon; not found at Guardian, where it could have been paired with this:

Evidence that may have been obtained by torture cannot be used against terror suspects in British courts, the House of Lords ruled today.

As if our torture victims will ever see the inside of a courtroom.