This is part of what I posted on another thread, before I discovered this one, where it is, perhaps, more appropriate:

While channel-surfing last night, I happened upon the Senate hearings with John Ashcroft on CSPAN-2. It became obvious during the questioning, especially Ashcroft's refusal to answer certain questions and refusal to provide copies of the memos in question (despite that fact the some of the senators already had copies of the memos, leaked to the press, in hand), that torture of prisoners is a matter of Bush administration policy. Asked if he was invoking executive privilege, he said he was not, but he still refused to answer. When told that if he was not invoking executive privilege, he was legally required to answer, he still refused. He was also threatened with charges of contempt of Congress, but he still refused. He obfuscated and equivocated, talking all around the subject, but he didn't answer the senators' questions. What he wouldn't say spoke volumes.

He could give dancing lessons to Michael Flatley.

It was evident that many of the senators, including Republicans, were thoroughly disgusted. Small wonder. The stench was overpowering.

Don Firth