From: "Robert G Lewis" 

The problem is how does one define torture. The administration appears to
have a far narrower definition than many of us.


"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:452693de$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Wrong.  Torture is illegal and nothing about that fact has changed.
>
> I truly wish you were right.
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:452673a9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Wrong.  Torture is illegal and nothing about that fact has changed.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
>> news:45264ab0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> None of these CIA/FBI types want to end up in prison on
Bush's behalf
>>>> so
>>>> if they feel their back is not covered they'll not engage
in nastiness.
>>>
>>> But now it is with the new law, the next Padilla *will* be tortured.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bob Comer
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>>>
>>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote
>>> in message news:452608a9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>>> Almost certainly because he is a citizen traitor.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nope it's coz he was on US territory & thus oddly
protected (in theory)
>>>> by an old piece of paper no matter what the
"Commander in Chief" might
>>>> say. Course he was Latino so he couldn't expect white boy niceness
>>>> but...no waterboarding as that might well be illegal under
"cruel &
>>>> unusual".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> None of these CIA/FBI types want to end up in prison on
Bush's behalf
>>>> so
>>>> if they feel their back is not covered they'll not engage
in nastiness.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>> "Adam"
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge">
>>>>> wrote in
>>>>> message news:45259921$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>>>>> Padilla was never aggressively interrogated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Adam"
 wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:4524dbca$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>>>>>>>> We weren't talking about American
Citizens?  At least I wasn't?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not even Padilla?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Adam
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Almost certainly because his interrogators were
worried about their
>>>>>> legal position.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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