"that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president's ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes."
what was that Bush was vehemently asserting over & over again?
something about "We Don't Torture". well, whattya know...seems we do. or at least did.
a reader at TPM puts it brilliantly:
"This is genuinely chilling. What shocks the conscience is that a legal scholar from one of our most prestigious institutions of law and higher learning could in his own mind on behalf of a government seeking to find a way around legal obstacles offer the same banal rationale for perpetrating unspeakable acts of torture and cruel treatment as all other totalitarian regimes: The ends justify the means. Why? Because someone cloaked with authority says it does."
(Glenn Greenwald has a great post up today on the subject)
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