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dismiss the torture and murder of a human being is an unrepentant sociopath.

to a discussion of his fears, as if they somehow justify torture and murder.

better display of our professed devotion to justice and human rights than anything afforded those who were condemned to torture without a trial.

What makes this argument so pathetic is that the people making it are often enthusiastic supporters of drone strikes.

excuse offered up by the conservative media is that the methods and tactics used didn’t meet the legal definition of torture. Unfortunately for them, that argument has already been tried and rejected in trials for war criminals.

law anticipates this defense and rejects it in its entirety. It states that there are no “exceptional circumstances whatsoever ... that may be invoked as justification” for torture. Cheney’s cowardice is simply not a legal defense for interrogation methods that included waterboarding, rectal rehydration and hypothermia

inventing nightmare scenarios to come up with an excuse for torturing defenseless prisoners.