Duke expert: torture program "a bad mistake & permanent stain on the Bush administration’s legacy"

[Triana]

. . ."The interrogation methods used were grotesque, contrary to American values and a violation of both domestic and international law," said Schanzer, co-director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill.

"When high-ranking Justice Department lawyers were being asked if it is OK to place a detainee inside a small covered box and then pour insects inside it, we should have known that something had gone terribly wrong," he said. "It is even worse that the answer that came back from the Justice Department was 'yes.'"

Schanzer added that the Bush administration deserves a great deal of credit for undertaking a number of difficult reforms after 9/11 to empower the U.S. government to effectively combat al Qaida.

But the CIA interrogation program "was a bad mistake and a permanent stain on the Bush administration’s legacy," he said.

THE REST:

http://today.duke.edu/2014/12/ciareport

[Thinkingabout]

1. And to think Bush could sit down at an interview and could not think of any mistakes he made.

OMG, it makes it worse than it really needs to be, he attack Iraq under false pretenses to the American public but we knew he wanted to attack them before he was president and then still has to come out and condemn torture, more mistakes. No one said the was the brightest light on the street but come on, where does he get with his false thoughts.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. A stain on the Bush legacy?

How about a stain on the soul of the country?

Torture is now legal and will be used in the future.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. With the remainder of the Bush legacy being....

....an unjustified invasion of an unarmed country, a market collapse, a bungled emergency response to a natural disaster affecting a major American city, and missing key clues in the lead up to the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history.

The entire administration was a stain on this country.

[Triana]

4. . . .

[JHB]

5. So...it's indistinguishable from the rest of the Bush legacy?

Or is it just the thickest part of the poop-pile?

[Triana]

6. +1 n/t

[jmowreader]

7. A "stain"? Surely you jest!

When one counts the terror attacks, economic disasters, illegal wars and all manner of other malfeasance commited at the hands of the Bush administration, torture is not a "stain." It is the dye that completely changes the color of that crime syndicate. The question is, is the Bush Organization blood red or shit bron?