Those of us in the Cheney-Hayden-Mukasey, pro-reasonable-interrogation, anti-making-mock-of-those-who-guard-us camp, might wish to remind our fellow citizens: The OLC memos reminded their recipients that torture is illegal, and conscientiously advised their recipients how to carefully conduct enhanced interrogations without crossing the line to illegality. Excesses by interrogators would probably have been more likely, not less, if the memos had not been written. So surely we should call the memos the anti-torture memos.
William Kristol
Kristol: The Anti-Torture Memos
Those of us in the Cheney-Hayden-Mukasey, pro-reasonable-interrogation, anti-making-mock-of-those-who-guard-us camp, might wish to remind our fellow citizens: The OLC memos reminded their recipients that torture is illegal, and conscientiously advised their recipients how to carefully conduct…
William Kristol · April 28, 2009
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