Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The Rule of Law and Torture

A Kiko's House meme from the very beginning has been the Bush administration's wholesale abandonment of the concept of the Rule of Law and its consequences.

Lest you have any question that the Bush administration made a conscious decision to do just that when it came to interrogation of military detainees, read Jane Mayer's fine new piece in the New Yorker.

Mayer notes that many conservative insiders believed that the upshot was the legalization of torture and made their views known. They were ignored. Mayer also reveals that the administration adopted a two-track policy in which they told Congress and the public one thing while allowing a de facto torture policy to remain in place.

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