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I'm Julianna McKannis, filling in for Clifford Banes who is vacuuming.
This week the military began closing the controversial labyrinth
which for seven years housed the brutal minotaur
they used to interrogate terror suspects but Congress and the American people
are still demanding to know who will be held accountable
for authorizing the minotaur maze. -Well I can tell you that right now,
no one should be held accountable because the use of the minotaur was necessary.
Yeah so forcing prisoners to wander in an infinite labyrinth,
living in fear of being torn limb from limb by the minotaur may seem harsh
to some people now, but you have to remember what it was like after 9/11.
That flesh-eating half man, half bull kept us safe from the terrorists.
No look, recently released classified memos show that many of the suspects
held at this facility suffered serious psychological damage... -Oh come on!
Please Jason! -...Because of the labyrinth's constantly shifting walls
not to mention the dozens who had their spines added to the minotaur's spine pile.
Oh please! -Look I worked for the Bush administration and this is the fault
of the media. They have blown this whole minotaur issue out of proportion.
For one thing the minotaur is only 11 feet tall,
not 20 like is commonly reported. -It doesn't matter whether the minotaur
used one razor sharp axe or seven. -Jason look, the terrorists would do
a lot worse to you. They'd drag you up beside of a mountain and have your bowels
pecked out by griffins. -We could use griffins but we don't use griffins
and I think that's what separates us from them. -That's exactly right.
The Obama administration has released some photos of these etchings which are found
carved on the labyrinth walls. -I mean I don't see what the debate
is here, these etchings clearly prove that the interrogations constituted torture.
These don't prove anything. -No, that's right, and even if the minotaur
did act inappropriately, and I'm not saying it did,
the United States cannot be held responsible for its actions
because it is a beastly minotaur and no chains can bind it.
And you know frankly I think it's sad that now the words
never-ending labyrinth of pain are synonymous with the errors
made by one loose cannon minotaur who yeah admittedly went too far.
Oh give me a break! I mean the fact is that this maze
violates the Geneva Convention which prohibits the use
of any bovine monster who wields an axe and has teeth longer than nine inches.
Oh please! -Come on! -Every terrorist out there
is now going to be trained on how to resist talking to a minotaur
while he disembowels him with his razor-sharp horns.
Yeah now you want to tie the hands and hooves of our interrogators even further?
Come on, there's got to be a federal investigation here.
Well the minotaur himself has some interesting suggestions on the topic
in his new tell-all audio book. -I believe we have a clip
from the controversial section where the minotaur talks about
*** Cheney's personal involvement in building the maze.
It's completely unsubstantiated.