Phil: "The author of the article I quoted argued that U.S. courts would reject the torture of U.S. citizens, and that the Bush administration's legal justification of torture did not adequately exclude this possibility."
Ah, another dividing line. So now, depending on who authors the report, torturing non-US citizens (for the purpose of preventing mass-death) is legally acceptable, whereas torturing US citizens (for the purpose of preventing mass-death) is unacceptable. Is mass-death perpetrated by a US citizen more acceptable (less unnaceptable) than mass-death perpetrated by a non-US citizen.
Simon
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