Russ Feingold on War and Torture
Said by Senator Russell Feingold at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, at which FBI Inspector General Glenn Fine revealed that the Bush Administration planned extraordinary rendition with the purpose of having prisoners tortured by the foreign governments into whose custody they were given:
“We fought World War II and the battles of the Cold War without resorting to legally sanctioned government torture. We can surely defend America now without sacrificing our principles.”
We can defend America without sacrificing the protections against torture begun with the Bill of Rights. The United States of America now tortures because it wants to.
