Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Justice Department lawyers agreed in 2005 that harsh interrogation techniques were legal. The impact of the story — which was based largely on email messages written at the time by James Comey, then a high-ranking Justice Department official — has been, it seems, to bolster the Dick Cheney position in the ongoing torture debate in Washington.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=141926