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To: jlallen who wrote (476434)	4/29/2009 4:51:26 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1576584

Thanks. I have conceded from the start that every viewpoint on waterboarding can be considered valid as an opinion, while the legal circumstance of the Bush Admin is pretty settled. 1) From the partisan hate interpretation, nearly every admin and congress has been guilty of criminal conduct. It is just ludicrous to imagine we would make a law with it in mind, to go back and criminalize everyone. 2) The Clinton Admin was complicit in far more severe treatment of prisoners. Complicity carries the same weight of criminality, in this case, as direct action. The extremists should have considered that before making such a serious partisan charge. 3) The DOJ and Congress clearly sanctioned the program where as: Section 2340(1) defines "torture" as "an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control." case closed