Jeffrey McManus

Here’s a real gem:

WASHINGTON – The White House and senators are discussing the
implications of a Senate-passed ban on the torture of suspected
terrorists in U.S. custody and what part, if any, of the proposal the
administration might find acceptable, the Pentagon chief said Sunday.

I wonder how these discussions are going. "The administration finds the ban on putting lit cigarettes out on detainees’ bare skin acceptable, but we wish to have an exception from the ban on applying live jumper cables to peoples’ nipples and we absolutely positively must continue to have the right make people stand up and sing the star spangled banner while chained to a pipe in a dungeon without food, water, or sleep for 48 hours. Because when you get right down to it, gentlemen, our freedom is at stake."

God. Why is there even a debate about this? Setting aside the whole "Congress makes the laws and the executive is supposed to enforce them" angle, haven’t these twits considered the fact that there are many excellent reasons why you’re not supposed to torture prisoners? (Hint: it has nothing to do with being a candy-ass goody two shoes.)

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