All the lawyers agree
By Matthew Hoy on February 7, 2008
I wanted to highlight this sentence in a Washington Post report that has become boilerplate in any article involving waterboarding.
Independent legal experts have called the technique torture and said its use is barred by U.S. laws and treaties under all circumstances.
It's missing a word at the beginning: "Some independent legal experts..."
The Post's bias is showing.
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Wouldn't it be nice to see exactly which laws apply in this analysis?
[Yes, it would be nice, but not determinative in the end. A waterboarding opponent, The Boston Globe, Thursday ran an editorial calling on Congress to make their ban on "torture" explicit. So even they backhandedly admit that it is currently up to interpretation. -ed.]