From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Robert G Lewis wrote:
> The problem is how does one define torture. The administration appears to
> have a far narrower definition than many of us.
>

I suppose it's a measure of how nasty "frat boy hazing" can
get....e.g. "in order to enter beta kappa phi you must be hung by your
genitals while being sprayed with acid"...thus doing that ain't
torture it's....frat boy hazing....

Adam

>
> "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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "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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