Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Torture Non-Debate

We are no longer actually debating the issue. We are now just arguing over whether or not it works. Jonathan Turley, says on Countdown that not only does the law specifically deny the use of that argument as a defense, but that making that argument is an open admission of guilt and can be used against you by the prosecution. The discussion is one of Olbermann's better ones, and is worth watching. Turley comes on 3:40 into the clip. It's kind of cool that he uses precisely the same bank-robbing analogy that I have used in earlier posts.

We have, however, defined torture down such that nobody is going to be convicted of it. The rest of the world knows that what we did is torture but we, to our eternal shame, define it otherwise.

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