Torture memos

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

FTFY, the law is a messy business.

I'm not particularly clear on how someone is "entrapped" into constructing legal loopholes in the torture prohibition. These are the guys who were bending over that stop sign and making sure it stayed that way for two years.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I'm not particularly clear on how someone is "entrapped" into constructing legal loopholes in the torture prohibition. These are the guys who were bending over that stop sign and making sure it stayed that way for two years.

When classicman asked why you said to arrest police officer, I said entrapment. What would have been your reason for arresting them?

I don't see how the whole analogy fit to the problem at hand anyway. If the police officer is supposed to represent the lawyers who constructed the documents legalizing torture, then I don't know what the charge would be. I think torture is pretty clearly defined by international law and also military law. They tried to rewrite it, and they did a pretty poor job of it IMO. One could argue collusion to commit harm or something, or perhaps conspiracy. I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.