: re: Bush and C.I.A. Ex-Officials Rebut Torture Report

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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM
Subject: re: Bush and C.I.A. Ex-Officials Rebut Torture Report
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

     It is long established that, in the president's words "some guys were tortured" while in U.S. custody and that torture is a crime. We are now told that "This was not a rogue program". It follows that we must now prosecute not just the agents, officers and contractors of the C.I.A. who committed these outrages, but also everyone all the way up the chain of command to Dick Cheney. Because although "I was just following orders" is no defense in U.S. law, "too dumb to form criminal intent" is, in the U.S., even if not in Texas.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/us/politics/bush-and-cia-ex-officials-rebut-torture-report.html?_r=0