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Originally Posted by Zeke
"In June 2004, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times obtained copies of legal analyses prepared for the CIA and the Justice Department in 2002. These documents developed a legal basis for the use of torture by U.S. interrogators if acting under the directive of the President of the United States."
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And it was total bullshit. It was an after the fact rationale, attempting to decriminalize criminal acts that had already been perpetrated and were then still being perpetrated.
It was not law and it was not a legal opinion from a judge hearing a case. It was more akin to a defense attorney's arguments... but free from any prosecutorial rebuttal.
The acts we perpetrated are specifically declared to be illegal in the Hague and Geneva conventions and, since we are signatory to these treaties, they are specifically illegal under US law and the Constitution. No lawyer's tortured argument (pun intended) can change that fact.
John