So, according to the Washington Post, the Democrats knew all along about waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques and at the time all they had to say was keep up the good work? And now they are talking about indicting people for torture?
So many things could be said about this, one doesn't know where to begin. A first thought though might be for those in the profession of intelligence gathering who feel they could use some written guidance in the law about what is aloud and what is not. The argument that we can high-mindedly outlaw "torture" and leave it undefined because 'we'll know it when we see it' is surely now seen to be hollow. How what officers do will be seen after the fact is entirely dependent on what will be politically expedient to see it as when we see it.
So many things could be said about this, one doesn't know where to begin. A first thought though might be for those in the profession of intelligence gathering who feel they could use some written guidance in the law about what is aloud and what is not. The argument that we can high-mindedly outlaw "torture" and leave it undefined because 'we'll know it when we see it' is surely now seen to be hollow. How what officers do will be seen after the fact is entirely dependent on what will be politically expedient to see it as when we see it.
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