Cheerleaders? ... Cheerleaders?

Published January 11, 2005 3:26PM (EST)

We'll bet even Alberto Gonzales can find some fault with the legal logic on Planet Womack:

"'Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?' Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said in opening arguments to the 10-member U.S. military jury at the reservist's court-martial. Reservist Graner and Pvt. Lynndie England, with whom he fathered a child and who is also facing a court-martial, became the faces of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal after they appeared smiling in photographs that showed degraded, naked prisoners."

And another gem from the wire story: "You're keeping control of them. A tether is a valid control to be used in corrections," he said. "In Texas we'd lasso them and drag them out of there."

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By Geraldine Sealey

Geraldine Sealey is senior news editor at Salon.com.

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