Remember when "plausible deniability" was enough to save an officeholder's skin? The Bush team has now moved beyond that. Their current strategy is to say that something couldn't have happened because it would have been too stupid. Let's call it...
Deniable Implausibility.
Tony Snow today: "You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will," Snow said. "You think Dick Cheney's going to slip up on something like this? No, come on."
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