www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "In other words, prodded by the Bush administration, the U.S. would actually legislate the government's permission to torture for the first time. Money quote:
'They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely,' Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said. 'You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it.'"
'They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely,' Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, said. 'You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it.'"
