Ethics

Interrogators Ask for Torture Investigation

By Ed Brayton

This is actually a couple weeks old but it's still worth posting. A group of three longtime interrogators sent a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees asking them to appoint a commission with full subpoena power to investigate the torture of detainees during the Bush administration, including the legal memos that justified it.

Their argument is clear and correct: If we do not investigate and prosecute those who violated the law and committed acts of torture, as required by treaties we have signed and advocated, there will be nothing to prevent such acts from happening again in the future. And they took dead aim at those who claim that any such investigations would undermine our counter terrorism activities:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).