Comments on: FBI Agents Contradict White House Insistence that Torture Yielded Valuable Information from Abu Zubaida http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:34:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4523 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:55:26 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4523 A picture is worth a thousand Constitutions….

]]> By: Patty C http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4521 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:35:45 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4521 DW, you neglected to mention one of the most reliable and effective weapons in the Executive arsenal.

The photo-op!

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4513 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:26:35 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/18/fbi-agents-contradict-white-house-insistence-that-torture-yielded-valuable-information-from-abu-zubaida/#comment-4513 Yes, if the oft-reiterated “saving American lives” is the paramount value of our times–then why stop at torture? It would indeed be expedient to have pre-emptive wars, assassinations, kidnappings, arsons, assaults, extra-legal detentions and all the other unsavory methods available to a truly effective Executive.

Let’s discard 2500 years of morality and do anything it takes to achieve our ends.

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