2006.02.20 - PEGC Extra
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As if we needed more vindication, here's a big one...

"If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter
of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It
destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that
man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal
dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human
beings, not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful enemy
combatants.' If you make this exception, the whole Constitution crumbles. It's a
transformative issue."

-- Alberto J. Mora, as quoted in The New Yorker


The New Yorker --

February 20, 2006 (Issue of 2006-02-27)

THE MEMO

How an internal effort to ban the abuse
and torture of detainees was thwarted.

By Jane Mayer

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?060227fa_fact


Balkinization ---

February 20, 2006
HOW THE PENTAGON CAME TO ADOPT CRIMINAL ABUSE AS OFFICIAL POLICY 
By Marty Lederman

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-pentagon-came-to-adopt-criminal.html


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