The Family Research Council’s Jerry Boykin and phony former terrorist Kamal Saleem were interviewed on Glenn Beck’s television program last night by fill-in host Stu Burguiere about the new novel they wrote together entitled “The Coalition.”
During the course of the interview, the topic of the recently released report documenting the CIA’s use of torture came up and all three men dismissed the findings entirely, with Burguiere mocking the notion that sleep deprivation or forced nudity could be considered torture, while Saleem laughably asserted that he had been trained as a terrorist from the age of seven on how to decapitate people, so the techniques employed by the CIA were modest in comparison.
Not to be outdone, Boykin declared that “this report came from a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites” and said that the real “torture” was the supposed persecution by the IRS of conservative groups.
“I’ll tell you what’s torture,” Boykin said, “torture is what we’ve done to the veterans at the VA hospitals. Torture is what we’ve done by having the IRS go after conservative groups”:
