Wall Street Journal does not understand concept of fiction

You've doomed us all Mr. President! You are the worst black President out of the three I've had to deal with! Dammit!

With President Obama's terrorist-loving tendencies bubbling up to the forefront with his America hating executive order banning torture, some are holding out hope that Jack Bauer will still be allowed to beat Arabs up for the good of the country. Like the Wall Street Journal for instance, they're even trying to pretend Jack is still free to nipple clamp a cell leader for freedom.

The unfine print of Mr. Obama’s order is that he’s allowed room for what might be called a Jack Bauer exception. It creates a committee to study whether the Field Manual techniques are too limiting “when employed by departments or agencies outside the military.” The Attorney General, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence-designate Dennis Blair will report back and offer “additional or different guidance for other departments or agencies.” […]

The “special task force” may well grant the CIA more legal freedom to squeeze information out of terrorists when it could keep the country safe.

What did Barry have to say when given a chance to equivocate? “I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture.” But those are just words, what about when you specifically ask the Administration's legal department about the exact same scenario as the WSJ posited?

Administration officials emphasized that there was no intent to create a loophole.

“This is not a secret annex that allows us to bring the enhanced interrogation techniques back,” said a senior Obama administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing legal strategies.

Well more words and proclamations, I mean it's not like they're trying to help pass laws through the congress that codifies all the torture laws more concretely than a mere executive order could and thus makes it harder for future Presidents to get around, right? They are? Well next season of 24 is going to blow then.

Just one suggestion though. Sometime in the next year can conservatives stop basing their pro-torture arguments on something other than a fictional TV show? Of course torture works on 24, because that's the way the writers write it. But reality has shown us that it just doesn't work. So can we get a real argument instead of "Won't someone think of the children Jack Bauer and his honorable service to our country"?