Thornberry joined my list

Mr. Thornberry of Texas seems to be confused. He making that tired accusation of liberals being soft on terror and doing so quite poorly.

He just equated an interrogator pointing out to a suspect being charged that the crime has a death penalty to an interrogator threatening to kill the suspect. He also confused a prison guard waking a prisoner with the interrogation tactic of sleep deprivation. Does any adult need the differences explained?

Whether either technique should be lawful is one question at hand, one I leave to those more capable of answering. Regardless of the specific answer, we should recognize there must be a defined line as to what is legal and what is not (i.e. none of that nonsense about vaguely-defined "enhanced techniques"). We cannot exempt someone because they served our country and continue calling ourselves a law-abiding and nation if they violate our laws. And to continue claiming we are a nation which guarantees justice, we must have the courage to not use as excuses subjective qualifiers such as "terrorist" when discussing those our legal system still classifies as not yet proven guilty of such a crime. If we lose these, our experiment has failed.