Not sure if the standard of prosecuting torturers should be whether or not they relied on the advice of lawyers (in fact I’m certain that should NOT be the standard,) but I’m glad that Sen. McCaskill is open to impeaching Jay Bybee, who authored a memo in the Bush Administration that gave legal cover to torture and later became a federal appellate judge.
Bullshit.
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No president, or attorney general, or senator, or anyone else can “derogate” the prohibition of torture ever. Period.
My God, is it too much to ask Claire Mccaskill to not waffle and stand up for some principle somewhere?
Pragmatism on Torture Another ‘Sorry Kind of Wisdom’
Sun Apr 19, 2009 at 09:41:11 PM PDT
via the BBC:
“I don’t think we want to look in the rearview mirror”
to try driving without using a rearview mirror shouldn’t have a license to drive at all. If I want to switch lanes, I start by checking rearview and sideview mirrors.