By GottaLaff









Oh, and just in case there are any skeptics left out there, there's this little tidbit:

In the wake of Obama’s decision to release the torture memos, some folks connected to the administration of George W. Bush are claiming that he gave a big boost to terrorists by revealing secret torture techniques that Obama or other presidents might have wanted to use in the future.

The claim is largely bogus. While a few technical torture details in the memos were new, much about the techniques themselves had already been public. Indeed, what’s actually new about the memos is that they reveal in unprecedented detail the Bush administration’s effort to legally justify already-known techniques.[...]

For instance, the recently released report from the Red Cross contains detailed descriptions of techniques... [...]

One more time: What was actually revealed in yesterday’s memos was the nature of the Bush administration’s efforts to legalize and justify the “harsh interrogation techniques” that we mostly knew about already. And it’s not terribly difficult to imagine why some folks would want those legal efforts kept under wraps.