Condi: "No, dear, you're wrong."

Let's hear it for YouTube and citizen journalism.

Thanks to Stanford students practicing journalism and asking about torture of prisoners, former Sec of State Condi Rice had a near meltdown moment ON VIDEO -- just before a campus dinner. She claimed she didn't authorize brutalizing prisoners, but just conveyed the authorization. Echoing Richard Nixon, she argued that if President Bush authorized it, then "by definition" it did not violate the Convention against Torture that our government has signed.

The video helped spark Stanford alumni from 1960s antiwar generation -- gathered for a campus reunion this weekend -- to publicly call for the prosecution or Rice, who is currently on Stanford's faculty.