Reply #10: mistake implies accidental causation...

[crimsonblue]

Spilling milk is a mistake. Tossing a glass of milk in somebody's face isn't a mistake. The Bush Administration clearly knew what it was doing when it implemented its torture regime; why else would there be so many memos that detailed it to such minute levels? They knew what they were doing was evil and illegal; EVERY lawyer learns the Geneva Conventions and Convention Against Torture in law school. It is a matter of accepted fact that competent civil rights and law enforcement lawyers know that there is no justification for torture, and also that certain torture methods are illegal.