legal argument is a sufficiently flexible tool that, under the right circumstances, it's possible to argue successfully that torture isn't torture, that laws which explicitly make no exceptions for exceptional circumstances actually do make exceptions for exceptional circumstances, that in time of war America is essentially a dictatorship, and that we are always at war." - University of Colorado professor Paul CamposÂ
"torture memos are what might be called exquisitely elegant hack work, or perhaps high-rent intellectual prostitution...
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