1.07.2005
Does cutting off fingers sound like torture?
It's nice to know that our attorney-general-to-be, Alberto Gonzales, has now acknowledged that -- while he might not have objected to it at the time because it was "not his job" to have an opinion about it (he was just writing the memo) -- cutting off the fingers of prisoners, though it might not threaten organ failure or death, does in fact "sound like" torture.
Have we no decency?
Have we no decency?