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0 pointsikeboy10y ago0 comments

Didn't he stop the torture program?

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cmdkeen10y ago· 2 in thread

But that's as far as he went. He's hardly been shouting from the rafters about how America should not be a country which tortures, and especially in the light of the Congressional findings re the CIA's activities I'm amazed there haven't been prosecutions. Honestly McCain, on this particular issue, would have been a better president.

ikeboyOP10y ago

Were there any smoking guns in the Congressional report? I don't recall any, but I didn't read the whole thing or look too much into it at the time.

I also don't think we should retroactively punish behavior that they thought was legal and proper at the time. That seems like a bad precedent.

cmdkeen10y ago

'The CIA "provided inaccurate information to the White House, Congress, the Justice Department, the CIA inspector general, the media and the American public" about the "brutal" interrogation techniques it used on terrorism suspects, a long-held Senate intelligence committee report finds.' http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/12/09/369562383/...

"I was just following orders" didn't cut it at Nuremberg either. The courts should have been allowed to test whether what they were doing was illegal or not, if it was legal then it is "just" a moral stain on the soul of America.

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cryoshon10y ago

He stopped the prosecution of torturers. Don't give him credit where a coverup was intended.

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