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To: tejek who wrote (476264)	4/29/2009 2:01:10 PM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574273

It did not and now Cheney et al are running scared. Cheney and others are immune from any action. That is if Obama doesn't turn the governemnt upside down and inside out.

To: tejek who wrote (476264)	4/29/2009 2:12:27 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574273

The referent law is torture. It is a good law, it could be tightened up. I'd make it more restrictive if I were doing it but my opinion doesn't change whether that law is legal or not. It is the law and it is fairly equivalent to others in the world covering the issue. Until we change it, we are bound by it. However, it is broadly stated enough that an individual or a group with a political agenda could apply it to everything from calling me unjustified names to body mutilation. For specific acts it requires interpretation of the context of discomfort as well as the level of discomfort experienced by a prisoner. That is all common sense to any objective unbiased person. That law was considered by representative stake holders in the decision about what should be allowed in those interrogations. The procedure was legal, appropriate, thorough and according to due process. Not everyone agrees they made the right decision but the decision was made and it was made legally. To say it should be changed, revisited, rehashed, or over ruled is certainly a fair thing to say and even to expect if there is enough interest in doing that. It would not, however, negate the legal entitlement of the Bush Administration to have engaged in operations that had been fully approved by the justice department and by congress.