On Lawyers and Torture
There’s been much commentary the past weeks over the legal memos released by the Obama administration, in which lawyers for the Bush administration were asked to give an opinion as to the legality of certain so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques (which were of sufficient severity and cruelty that most people would call them “torture”). I’ve read the memos (which are available here), albeit not word-for-word, and find myself disagreeing with those […]