When Is Torture Not Torture?
Jack Balkin of
Balkinization does a nice job of summarizing
David Lubin's attempt in the WaPo to summarize the Bush Administration's definition of torture, but it seems to me they're both missing the point. I can do it a lot quicker.
If we do it, it isn't torture.The Emperor's definition of torture is as fluid as the techniques we do or do not use and changes with the circumstances. Waterboarding, for example, used to be considered torture. Now that we're doing it, it isn't.
The 'Bush lexicon', as Lubin calls it, is no more complicated than that.
Posted at 03:07 pm by Ethel, the Early-Warning Frog
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