this article sounds like the voice of a truly imperious person unable to find the standard moral compass! Justice is unattainable with apologist like this, with thinking like this we might as well let the rapist and murders out of prison, so justice will be equal....no one gets it. Should we treat our government's terrorist (individuals that advise for , order, engage in, torture) differently that alleged terrorist....which we know nothing about (cause it's secret)? the ... More »

Mr. Gourevitch asserted that, “[f]ormer Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that we must torture because it is effective." I’d like to see the quote and its source. I doubt he said that, or anything that can be construed as making that claim. Did anything the administration sanctioned with regard to interrogation at the CIA level constitute a crime? The lawyers did not think so and neither do many others. The left wants to criminalize opinion and to criminalize that which is not ... More »