If this were a country that honored the rule of law, the Attorney General would not need to promise not to torture.

"I have rarely been as ashamed and disgusted as I was Saturday reading that US Attorney General Eric Holder had sent a letter to the Russian minister of justice saying that the US would 'not seek the death penalty' in its espionage case against National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, promising that even if the US later brought added charges against Snowden after obtaining him, they would not include any death penalty, and vowing that if Snowden were handed over by Russia to the US, he would 'not be tortured.' -- Dave Lindorff