[Ads-l] RES: crash blossom candidate

[Laurence Horn]

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 8:49 PM, David Daniel <dad at COARSECOURSES.COM> wrote:
> 
>> "How Can the Justice Department Help CIA Torture Victims?"
>> By giving them a battery and some jumper cables?
>> DAD
> 
>> But the intended meaning here is indeed "How can the DoJ assist the CIA =
> in torturing victims?", not "How can the DoJ help the victims of CIA =
> torture?"
>> So I don't think it's a crash blossom in the usual sense.  (Or maybe the =
> dual reading was intended.)
> LH
> 
> No, no. The article says the ACLU wants the justice department to "do
> nothing" and not invoke "national security" to thwart the lawsuits filed by
> the tortured. The headline should have read, "How can the Justice Department
> Help the Victims of CIA Torture."
> DAD
> 
> 

Oh, OK.  I read it quickly and thought there was some irony going on.  Or a pun.   A tortured tale, in any case.

LH
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