Glenn Reynolds, aka InstaPundit, has a big post on torture filled with some thought provoking links. Here’s a quote from Reynolds:
I love lawyers. I am a lawyer. But there are plenty of places where the role of lawyers should be limited, and war is certainly one of them. I think the McCain Amendment is an appropriate use of Congress’s authority — and, indeed, a case of meeting, if way too late, Congress’s responsibilities — but if it’s to do more good than harm it needs to be quite specific about what is permitted and what is not, and it needs to avoid creating a lawyers’ full-employment act in the process. I’m not sure that we’re there yet. The military is actually getting more specific in a new set of guidelines, but they’re classified so I can’t say much about them.
Read it all. The links are quite extensive and thought-provoking.
Make sure to also check out John Cole on this issue.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.