Reply #12: It could very well be those memos are legally accurate and could be argued and lost in court

[tomm2thumbs]

The law is not always pretty and Bush had the rottingest lawyers in the land - and perhaps they indeed wrote a legally accurate accounting of what defined the absolute fringe of torture - in legal terms. I'm not for this, of course, but the Bush lawyers did this with a conniving plan to legalize the acts they committed - and perhaps they would actually hold up in court - and perhaps this was already tested behind the scenes with the Supreme Court being asked on this matter.

We are not seeing everything that goes on in an administration. I do know that this President would not do something he loathed unless it was an impossible task to overcome. It makes no sense otherwise.