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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I believe that Bybee conspired with administration officials to implement torture, in violation of US law and common Christian decency and morality.

Moreover, I do not believe that waterboarding can be reasonably interpreted as not torture.

I'm not sure you've demonstrated yourself to be reasonable.

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Lastly: I grant that we all make mistakes. I grant that repentance is part of being in good stead. In Bybee's case, however, with years to think about what he did, and years to consider what happened as a result of what he did, and having looked at the fact that others have called him wrong, that his policy has been rejected, that he knows prior case law, that he knows of things like the Khmer Rouge, he says "I WAS
RIGHT."

If you can't excommunicate a torturer, I'm fairly certain the list of things that ought to be excommunicable is pretty small.

QED