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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
It's absolutely key. It's a small step to go from torturing terrorist suspects to torturing the suspect in a kidnapping to torturing political enemies.
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Bear in mind that foreign affairs, including the waging of wars, is the field now where the executive branch has virtually no oversight. Congress doesn't even declare war anymore. So if the president lacks scruple about torture that's all she wrote, we're a country that tortures.