Torture: Investigate and learn (Phoenix East Valley Trib)

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Tribune Editorial
April 24, 2009 - 7:52PM

... The debate is healthy, but if we don’t learn something useful, it’s yet another episode of mutual recrimination leading nowhere and satisfying nobody.

These memos certainly make it clear that the CIA did use enhanced interrogation techniques that have been defined as torture when done by operatives from other countries.

If we believe that the rule of law applies to rulers as well as to the ruled, then at least an investigation of both those who committed and those who ordered or authorized torture, up to and including the man in the Oval Office, would seem appropriate ...

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