If the general attorney has to step up to the podium and assure an American public that a whistleblower won't be killed or tortured you've got a country in dire straits.
Especially since it seems that not all Americans believe him.
Especially since it seems that not all Americans believe him.
By their own legal definition, the US government "tortures" no one. Water boarding, sensory deprivation, psychological torture, stress positions and starvation are not considered torture by the administration.
Really? That's news to me. Can you point me to the AG memo or E.O. clarifying that waterboarding and stress positions are now again not considered torture?
The fact that nobody was prosecuted for performing and authorizing torture sends very clear message.
It's not just "details". Distortion and misleading details are attributes I'd always pinned on 'the others', but I won't accept it from here just because we both disagree with torture.
well, then you are lost even without starting as distortion and misleading details are unavoidable in the environment where prevalent force uses lies and secrecy as the main mode of operation, i.e. like CIA destroying video tapes as a response to Congress' request for the tapes. Though the fact that they destroyed the tapes describes the content of the tapes very precisely. Use your mind, Luke, as it is the only thing that can resist Force.
On January 22, 2009 President Obama signed an executive order requiring the CIA to use only the 19 interrogation methods outlined in the United States Army Field Manual on interrogations. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInt...