Torture memos

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Actually, Jill, what such of the record as we without clearances and accesses know is that it did work and we did bust up some impending attacks.....

I get this sort of half-thought-through argument all the time from the opposition. It is tedious....

Putting aside the contention that you know that it worked despite the numerous DoD, DoJ and CIA IG reports and other documents that have been released and suggest, at a minimum, that there is no such certainty....and that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" were highly questionable as to their legal justification.

We know that Bush/Cheney and neo-cons like yourself believe that the Geneva Conventions and UNCAT are tedious.

Still the law.....the supreme law of the land.

Article VI: This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land;

Buth why should that matter?

If the president authorized it, it must be legal:

“And so...if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”
~ Condi Rice

You guys are our "freedom fighters" and answer to a higher authority than the Constitution.