The President can not make something illegal into something legal. The torture memos prove that. And for those on the Right who forget your morals from President to President, Jonathan Chait remember this:
Remember the Rule of Law? In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles. Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where he could either lie under oath or suffer massive personal and political embarrassment, conservatives reasoned that Clinton must be held accountable for perjury or the basic underpinnings of democracy would be shattered. The Republican sensibility was best reflected by the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which not only crusaded for impeachment but demanded, in 2001, that Bill Clinton be indicted even after leaving office. The Journal rejected the logic of promoting healing and insisted that a post-presidency indictment would uphold "the principle that even Presidents and ex-Presidents are not above the law."When you torture someone you are looking for confirmation on intelligence you already know. The torturer relents when his subject provides the "correct" answer.
We already have the "correct" answer on whether torture is illegal or not. It's now time to hold our "suspected" policy makers to the Rule Of Law.
Source: www.torturingdemocracy.org
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