June 18, 2007
By
Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 7:01am
The LA Times
asks in an editorial:
All of this has created ambiguity about a subject that cries out for clarity. Torture violates basic norms of American society; it is wrong wherever practiced and by whatever euphemism. If the administration persists in defining torture down, Congress should push back — by using the power of the purse. As McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, put it in the Republican debate in South Carolina: "It's not about the terrorists; it's about us. It's about what kind of country we are."
