The (torture) issue refuses to go away. Why?

September 16, 2009 8:53 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

... prosecuting crimes is not an option or a policy choice. If laws have been broken, the culprits must be brought to book. The issue is not one of "criminalising policy differences" but rather of terminating a situation in which torture itself became a policy option and, de facto, legalised. Not investigating (and, thus, sanctioning) such behaviour is to condone it.

The post-9/11 U.S. torture programme was a collective failure and a mistake because it was WRONG.

JORGE HEINE,Â FRONTLINE

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