Thursday, September 27, 2012
What you get when you don't prosecute torture
You get a real possibility that the next Republican/Teabagger president will embrace it with all the fervor of a Gestapo interrogator. Because having tortured with out penalty, the US no longer has any inhibitions or enforceable prohibitions against it if the executive so decides.
In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in the Army Field Manual. Even as he embraced a hawkish approach to other counterterrorism issues — like drone strikes, military commissions, indefinite detention and the Patriot Act — Mr. Obama has stuck to that strict no-torture policy.Enhanced interrogation, two of the meanest, cruelest words ever devised by a dick like Cheney. And if Romney wins, a cinch to become national policy.
By contrast, Mr. Romney’s advisers have privately urged him to “rescind and replace President Obama’s executive order” and permit secret “enhanced interrogation techniques against high-value detainees that are safe, legal and effective in generating intelligence to save American lives,” according to an internal Romney campaign memorandum.
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