Reply #55: "Note: The DOJ repudiated the memo once it became public." [View All]

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No one needs to revisit the definition of waterboarding. By law, it is torture. This is the admin's spin: they want to redefine torture because it appears they have engaged in a "barbaric" practice.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2816868&mesg_id=2816868


Senator Kerry has addressed Abu Ghraib and that memo many times:

We must also start treating our moral authority as a precious national asset in the war on terror. We play into the hands of our enemies and lose credibility when the Vice President lobbies for the right to torture, even after the Abu Ghraib disaster, when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has to publicly remind the Secretary of Defense that our troops have an obligation to stop torture when they see others doing it, and when we continue to hold detainees indefinitely in a legal no-man’s land.

http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=249580