from Ari Fleisher to Dana Perino
Posted: October 5th, 2007, 3:56 pm
Folks, she's workin' on the US payroll. Move over Snowjob. The Perinoator's in town!REPORTER: In a conference call in July, a senior administration official said that they would no longer -- or wouldn't use extreme temperatures of heat and cold. Is that true?
DANA PERINO: I don't know. I don't -- I wasn't on the -- I don't recall.
REPORTER: I guess the point is that if the senior administration official told us on a conference call that these methods wouldn't be used, why won't you say whether or not head-slapping, waterboarding, would be used?
DANA PERINO: I don't believe that I -- I'm not in a position to be able to do that. I am not going to comment on specific techniques. […]
Now, if there were an attack on this country, all of the questions in here would be very different. You would be asking me, “How did you allow this to happen?” And what I am telling you is that, within the law, we are making sure that we are doing everything we can to prevent it from happening again.
REPORTER: But what's to stop another country from then taking their own definition and interpretation based on the administration's --
DANA PERINO: As I understand it, under the Geneva Conventions, every country was supposed to interpret it for themselves, and now we have.
