Quote:When the Bush administration revealed in 2005 that it was secretly interpreting a treaty ban on “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” as not applying to C.I.A. and military prisons overseas, Barack Obama, then a newly elected Democratic senator from Illinois, joined in a bipartisan protest.
Quote:President Obama’s legal team is debating whether to back away from his earlier view. It is considering reaffirming the Bush administration’s position that the treaty imposes no legal obligation on the United States to bar cruelty outside its borders, according to officials who discussed the deliberations on the condition of anonymity.
Regardless, I suspect the only thing that is tortured within the Obama administration, is logic.
Full NY Times story
The issue was never about "Torture," per se. From the standpoint of the Bush Admin., it was about minimizing the legal exposure of military/CIA personnel abroad, and from the standpoint of Bush's critics it was about scoring political points for the elections in 2006 and 2008.
The CIA should torture terrorist suspects by making them watch MSNBC, or Rev Wright / Obama preaching videos.
My guess is that the people that are against “enhanced interrogation methods”
would quickly change their mind if the safety of their family was in question.
If torture or enhanced interrogation techniques were in effective they would have been discontinued hundreds of years ago.
(10-19-2014 11:29 AM)AngryAphid Wrote: [ -> ]My guess is that the people that are against “enhanced interrogation methods”
would quickly change their mind if the safety of their family was in question.
Exactly.
People can claim moral opposition all they want but sometimes what needs to be done for the country is not always going to be morally satisfying for everyone.
(10-19-2014 11:03 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: [ -> ]The CIA should torture terrorist suspects by making them watch MSNBC, or Rev Wright / Obama preaching videos.
Those are Motivational things for Terroists
