New Justice Department Memo Seeks CIA ‘Latitude’
What a sad state of affairs when it’s preferable to be imprisoned in the jail of a desperate dictator than fall into the hands of the United States:
The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows that the administration is arguing that the boundaries for interrogations should be subject to some latitude, even under an executive order issued last summer that President Bush said meant that the C.I.A. would comply with international strictures against harsh treatment of detainees.
No word on whether ‘latitude’ means going back using the definition that ‘nothing short of the pain associated with organ failure constituted illegal torture.’
Ah, the halcyon days of 2002-2004.
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