I doubt that many of us have the stomach to read the Torture Memos thoroughly. I don’t. But here’s an exerpt from 2005 in which Steven Bradbury attempts to re-evaluate the earlier Yoo/Bybee versions. The question is simple, if these techniques don’t cause extreme pain and suffering, why are they using them at all? Why are there so many Memos being written about them? Why does it take him 44 pages to answer a simple "yes/no" question. They sound like they are being written to cover "how to cause extreme pain and suffering without being charged with causing extreme pain or suffering." And, in fact, Bradbury is responding with "how to justify the interrogators causing extreme pain and suffering without looking like you are justifying causing extreme pain and suffering." Somebody on high was obviously saying, "Cover Bush’s Ass, but don’t stop us." We know exactly which two guys were saying that…
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Everything they did was to ignore our laws: putting the prisoners in Cuba, stripping their rights to trial, sending them to foreign soil to secret camps, getting Memo after Memo from the DoJ. No matter how creative their methods, they were obviously evading/avoiding our laws and principles. Otherwise, why do any of those things? And what good are " assorted medical personel" using "special care" to do "monitoring and reporting" when someone is being tortured?
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