re: #119 Obdicut

It is, and always has been, illegal to torture.

Well, sort of…kinda. There are ways around it. Obama is still running CIA blacksites and military prisons overseas. There are rules about what goes on there but I’m not sure what they are or how well they’re supervised. I suspect the rules are pretty loose and elected officials would rather not really know anyways. We are also still using rendition to countries that do torture for us. Once again, I’m not sure exactly what the rules are but it probably just means that a US official conducts the interrogation by proxy and the techniques are probably a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.