talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/29/2009
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In response to my earlier post on torture , a number of readers have written in to say that it's not a matter of Cheney et al. being squeamish about using the word 'torture'. It's that there are specific statutes on the books in the US and internationally that make 'torture' a crime, with ...
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Breaking The Law, Suffering The Consequences
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Josh Marshall on the torture advocates' cowardice: Being bold means taking responsibility for being bold. As I've argued before, I think the answer to the ticking time bomb rationale for torture is this: that in the extremely unlikely circumstance that government officials ...
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