Tales From Torture’s Dark World

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/opinion/15danner.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=torture's%20dark%20world&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Subject: re: Tales From Torture’s Dark World
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To the Editor:

   So far, we know that agents of our C.I.A. have waterboarded detainees, that waterboarding is torture and that torture violates both our statutory law and our treaty obligations. Now it is revealed that these outrages were done on the orders of the deputy director of operations of our C.I.A. We can either prosecute him, or we can issue belated apologies to the war criminals whom we prosecuted and convicted at Nuremberg.  To do neither is unconscionable--it would be to put ourselves outside the community of humanity.

Barry Levine