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Critics Still Haven't Read the 'Torture' Memos
The CIA proposed the methods. The Justice Department gave its advice.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy wants an independent commission to investigate them. Rep. John Conyers wants the Obama Justice Department to prosecute them. Liberal lawyers want to disbar them, and the media maligns them.
What did the Justice Department attorneys at George W. Bush's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) -- John Yoo and Jay Bybee -- do to garner such scorn? They analyzed a 1994 criminal statute prohibiting torture when the CIA asked for legal guidance on interrogation techniques for a high-level al Qaeda detainee (Abu Zubaydah).
I'd get down on my knees and beg the CIA to waterboard if one of my children were in danger. I'd tell them to skip the caterpillars, though. That would be wasting time.
If that's advocating criminality, then lock me up. I'll be in good company.
I'd get down on my knees and beg the CIA to waterboard if one of my children were in danger. I'd tell them to skip the caterpillars, though. That would be wasting time.
If that's advocating criminality, then lock me up. I'll be in good company.
Really? You'll be in the company of the unabomber, the Blind Sheik, the 20th Hijacker, Terry Nichols etc...good company?
Just don't jump on CD throwing a Krissyfit when an American is on TV getting tortured. You lose the right to be outraged at something you advocate.
Wrong. Criminal advocates call for the closing of Guantanomo and argue for the "rights" of foreign terrorists. That probably makes you one.
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