Comments Posted By Cinabar
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Rick,
I would like to take exception to the statement that you wrote to wit “In short, we’ll never know if using legal methods would have gotten the same results.”
I can respect, though disagree, with your position that water-boarding is antithetical to the traditions of the United States. That is a fair position that reasonable people, I believe, can debate. But to take the position that these methods were illegal is stretching the argument. To my knowledge there is no US law on the books that pronounces these methods illegal. Indeed, it is the legal ambiguities that prompted the CIA to request a DOJ legal interpretation. The legal eagles at Justice rendered their opinion based on US law and the CIA accordingly acted in good faith.
Comment Posted By Cinabar On 23.04.2009 @ 13:26
