Ethics

Bush Ignored Law and Treaty in Torture Memos

By Ed Brayton

Daphne Eviatar has been going over the newly released torture memos and noticed something very interesting: The administration's legal arguments didn't change at all from the first set of memos, written in 2002 and 2003, to the second set of memos, written in 2006 and 2007. Why is that a problem? Well, the legal environment actually changed greatly in between those two sets of memos. Daphne explains:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 28, 2009 (boomark / email).