Daley Doesn't Recall Police Abuse

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

"I don't recall," Mayor Daley said 16 times to special prosecutors investigating whether police under former Cmdr. Jon Burge tortured prisoners for nearly 20 years without getting caught.

Daley also said "I don't know" four times, "I wouldn't know" three times, "I can't comment on that" twice, "I couldn't speculate on that" twice, "I forgot," "I don't have a recollection," "I wouldn't recall," "I don't remember" and "I've never heard of that."

The last comment was in response to a question about whether he was aware that some felt former prosecutor Larry Hyman "made a very, very poor decision" waiting eight hours to interview defendant Andrew Wilson while both men were at the police station and Wilson says officers were torturing to get him to confess to killing a police officer.

It almost sounds like someone who's trying to avoid a perjury charge.