I remember being taught that the USA was a nation of laws not of men. I liked that idea and believed it until Nixon came along with his sick idea that if the President does it, it is not a crime. Cheney clearly brought that same sick idea into the Bush the Lesser administration. We need to be very aware of what is legal and what is not with our supposed national interest in individual human rights.
Torture has become increasingly illegal since the days of the 1949 Geneva Convention with the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment signed by President Reagan in 1988 and The War Crimes Act of 1996 passed by Congress. Continued after the loopy thingy.
