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Originally Posted by Kevin
I was commenting that up to that point, the issue was the effectiveness of it, not whether anything was illegal.
I do think that our soldiers and the CIA agents should be treated exactly the same insofar as the 'justice' response to this issue.
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I don't think there should be retro-active investigations of this for incidences occurring 2002-2009 of the techniques that were addressed in the memos or the briefings as "enhanced interrogation" or whatever it was called other than torture. I think we clarify the policy and we go forward and prosecute anyone who uses the techniques in the future. If permission is sought for techniques and given, I don't think the people below that level in the chain of command should be penalized for using them. And unless it can actually be demonstrated that the people seeking clarification misrepresented the techniques they knew to be illegal, I don't think they should be prosecuted either.
I also hope that members of congress who think that claiming to be duped is a good strategy for leadership will be held accountable for their own stupidity/incompetence or deceit by the voting public, but I think I'm probably dreaming.