Not only were the techniques 100% legal, they were effective in saving American lives. So if they are in accordance with both domestic and international laws, and they are effective in protecting Americans, why is there debate? My guess is because people are still more often than not completely ignorant and would rather reiterate someone elses talking points rather than be an individual and form their own opinion. Fight the zombie menace, dont succumb to the social disease that is liberalism.
Those detainees who wind up in underground “supermax” isolation cells 23 hours a day (with one hour in a solitary dog run for excercise) will weep to return to good old sunny Gitmo.
they had no uniforms on the battlefield, they could have been summarily executed as spies or saboteurs according to the Geneva Convention, right?