Marcy Wheeler: 83 Waterboardings, 10 Pieces of Intel

I think when Cheney says that torture "produced intelligence", what he meant was "I felt smarter as soon as we started doing it".
About Dick Cheney
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Pope Controversies Worry The Vatican

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Yes, it is a misunderstanding. Infallibility only applies when the Pope speaks ex cathedra on matters regarding faith and morals."

Thanks OC4Obama4Pres for clearing that up for me. Thanks to the others who added comment too.

I'm not sure that I would buy the Vatican's premise that they are only infallible in a specific set of circumstance, while at the same time implying that the Pope has a "direct line" to the boss when ever he needs it. Seems he might ask BEFORE making a comment to the WORLD! It can't really help the Church if the "voice of God on earth" is walking around making a bunch of "personal" comments that are provably false.
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Infallible?

Pope's gaffes spook Vatican

Correspondents in Yaounde | March 21, 2009

Article from: The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25216429-2703,00.html

Maybe someone can help me out with this. A few days ago I read the article that said the Pope was apologizing for some of the statements and decisions he's made recently. In essence he said he "misspoke".

Perhaps I'm simply confused, but I had understood one of the precepts of the Catholic faith to be based upon the "infallibility of the Papacy". Is this incorrect? I had thought that the premise was that the Pope was a direct lineage from God, and that the Pope essentially had a "direct line" to the boss. By virtue of that "direct line" the Pope COULD NOT "misspeak" because every utterance, every word from his lips, essentially is coming directly from God, who is omnipotent and all knowing.

Is this a misunderstanding on my part?