The Abolition of Torture
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| Author(s) | Andrew Sullivan |
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| Source | The New Republic |
| Date | December 7, 2005 |
| URL | http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20051219&s=sullivan121905 |
| Quote | "If the point of the U.S. Constitution is the preservation of liberty, the formal incorporation into U.S. law of the state's right to torture--by legally codifying physical coercion, abuse, and even, in Krauthammer's case, full-fledged torture of detainees by the CIA--would effectively end the American experiment of a political society based on inalienable human freedom protected not by the good graces of the executive, but by the rule of law."
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