re: #253 Walter L. Newton

You know what the bottom line is? Water boarding is torture, and a number of other techniques to try to extract information is torture. And that’s wrong, illegal and it’s immoral.

And in case of an emergency, no amount of kevtching on a blog is going to stop ANY government from using it when they deem it absolutely necessary.

I don’t agree with it, don’t like it, it’s not something I would want to be responsible for enacting… but nothing is going to stop it.

Well, its the same as any crime really, even the very terrorism we’re fighting. If someone absolutely, positively think its the best (or only) option, all the laws and regulations to the contrary won’t stop them. But I think we can keep it from being institutionalized in the US security apparatus.