That's awfully facile. You confine yourself to a drive-by bleat, because you are afraid to lace on the gloves and climb into the ring. Instead of just asserting that what I said is sophistry, why don't you tell us specifically which points of law Jay Bybee and John Yoo got wrong, in which of their memos on this subject, and explain why you think their legal analysis of each point was incorrect? I'll tell you why--it's because you have never read a single sentence of even one of those documents, and would not have understood it if you had tried.
I have read those memos, and also quite a few others that are part of the thousands of pages of government documents on this subject. As someone who has written legal research memos on difficult subjects, I know what's involved--and the quality of the analysis of this subject by the Office of Legal Counsel is as good as it gets. Because section 2340 had only been on the books for several years, there was not even one case construing it, and that made the task of determining what constituted torture under U.S. laws even harder. But determine it Bybee and Yoo did, and having analyzed their memos pretty closely, I believe they got it right. I don't think any of the enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, even came very close to being torture under the law.
You do not know the first thing about this subject, so you swallow whole some witless anti-American propaganda you read in Mother Jones, or saw on MSNBC. The intellectual quality of the "analysis" by the usual lump in the lumpenproletariat is roughly this: "Woah, man, they like tortured those dudes at Gitmo really bad! Put water up their nose and s***, just for the crime of being Muslim!" Millions of these malcontent ignoramuses now infest this country, loathe it just like their fellow statist in the White House does, and are eager to believe anything bad about it. Their resentment of America gives them common cause with the Muslim jihadists who want us all dead.
I'd like once again to recommend a book by Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor. Mr. McCarthy played an important role in convicting and sending to prison Abdel "The Blind Sheikh" Rahman for his part in the conspiracy that resulted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The title is The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America".
