Summary
With the recent disclosure of secret Justice Department memos, there can remain no doubt that government interrogators tortured prisoners grossly and repeatedly in violation of our laws and Constitution and treaty commitments. But publishing the memos is only the beginning of dealing with a national moral and legal crisis that has damaged our reputation in the rest of the world and sullied many Americans' pride in their own country.
The biggest need is to purge ourselves of a dreadful departure from moral and legal values and to prevent it from ever happening again. For starters, that means a complete disclosure of this misbehavior, a process now well underway.See the full content of this document
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Torturers and Lawyers
President Obama was right in ordering the declassification and release of the memos. And he was probably right in disting...
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