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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

TODAY'S BIG NUGGET: Clarity on the Muddled Debate Over Torture

The Torturers’ Non-Defense (Andrew Sullivan) from The Dish
"In other words, the entire point of the Convention is to prevent any wriggle room around what torture is and to include inhumanity. And if you don’t believe that stretching people till their limbs break, near-drowning them hundreds of times, hounding them day and night with sleep
deprivation, or subjecting them to freezing temperatures, mock executions and amount to inhumanity, you are no longer human. In a court of law, Tenet would be out of luck. Just as important, the context is irrelevant."
Bush, Cheney, Tenet, and down the line -- criminals.

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