Gonzales Secretly Authorized CIA Torture
Should we torture?
NYT-Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.
Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it.
If I thought we could get the truth from politicians, I’d torture them.
Mad Dog, you beat me too the punch!
correction, “to” the punch
Hugh,
I’ll get his feet. You get the water.
MD
Poli-Sci 101:
When they ask you about torture or taxes YOU ALWAYS SAY NO!!!
(not that it will make much difference)
Gonzales Secretly Tortured Constitution
David,
Is that like a secret porno flick?
Constitutional Bondage brings you Gonzo Gonzales, Shooter Cheney, and the Cowboy Bush?
Not suitable for documents over 210 years of age.
Photo ID not required. Three D glasses and a hood with every ticket.
I think Gonzo might be one of these “functional sociopaths” that I was reading about. Apparently they’re EVERYWHERE!!
But perhaps there’s EVEN MORE IN DC!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chain-gun Cheney . . .
Willy,
One exclamation point is enough.
Chain-gun Cheney… oh that’s so rich in metaphor.
David
You can correct my punctuation but don’t talk about my grammar. (that woman was a saint)
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