“amounting to an admission that the United States may have committed war crimes, opens the door to an unpredictable train of legal and political consequences.”
That ship has already sailed. They’ve been saying it for years, and we’ve been pilloried world wide as a result.
You want torture? I’ll give you f***ing torture. How about this…you are at work and suddenly there is a tremendous crash and fire. After huddling with your co-workers you realize you are 80 stories up and cut off from rescue by an out of control fire below you. The heat is becoming so intense that you can’t stand it much longer. So you try and call your loved ones and if you’re lucky you get through. Maybe you get to say goodbye to them directly or you leave leave a voice mail that will haunt them forever. Then you break a window, hang hundreds of feet above the ground and let go.
That’s torture.