re: #320 Killgore Trout

Ok - let’s look past the fact that you justified his position by leaving out important context from his larger answer (his follow up answer had nothing to do with treaties).

Yoo’s main focus is not torture, it’s what powers should be handed over to the President. Are you OK with the President, whichever President it happens to be at any particular time, deciding what constitutes justifiable “enhanced interrogation,” to be conducted on whomever, depending on what he thinks?

That was Yoo’s argument. Personally, I’d rather have a set of rules established. You know, based on precedent. Oh, I don’t know, like precedent set when the United Staes tried people as torturers for waterboarding?