Even if it's not Hayden, you can bet over the next few days that in almost every newspaper article and on every cable-news network, there will be a former intelligence official – trying to defend the indefensible, refusing "to use the word 'torture'".
MPs said that while the blacklist was not initially illegal, it was always "morally indefensible" and companies involved continued to use it after it had become illegal.
Continuing to use immigration and immigrants as a political football is morally indefensible.
If Assad were to use CW again, it would put Russia in the uncomfortable diplomatic position of having to defend the indefensible.
Through critical reviews of the impact of nomadic groups such as the Qezelbash that assess the political machinations used to exploit, control, deport and ultimately disempower them, Potts is able to demonstrate that it is indefensible to argue that there were continuities in the practices used by individual groups over any extended period, and certainly not across millennia.
One already revered bit sees Bill come to the defense of the previously indefensible Arnold Schwarzenegger, using an argument so tightly structured and (comedically) logically sound that it casts Bill as a barroom Johnnie Cochran.
I'm waiting for a Palestinian leader to say that blowing up men, women and children on buses and in pizza parlors is morally indefensible, not merely ineffective at present but available to be used again if the practicalities change.
The bungalows were also too expensive to maintain, they argued, and an indefensible use of land in a city where millions are crammed into claustrophobic housing colonies or slums.
It's telling, though, that when the Republicans brandished the nuclear option eight years ago, their target was the least indefensible use of the filibuster — the "best" use, you might say.
As indefensible as James' use of the word 'queer' is, it's important we tell the difference.
