True but it would have to be from the time the law was passed until the Bush people used the enhanced techniques. I suppose I should go back and see if earlier versions of that code had the same language defining torture. Then there would be a longer trail of precedents. It would be interesting to read the Senate deliberations on the UN Treaty to see what they said about the reservations. They were the ones that made them along with Bill Clinton. Clinton’s will be harder to find since most of his stuff is locked away for a few years unless your a scholar with appropriate approvals from Clinton & Co. Back to Congress their comments when they were developing the exceptions would be fun to publicize and ask them to explain their position then vs now and not let them off the hook with I changed my mind or the ever popular I was for it before I was against it.
Well,....maybe a truth commission would need to look at all of this....nice work digging this out,....