Old Man Cap

Crooks & Liars: Judge bars all evidence obtained by torture

This is actually great news. Whether or not this guy did or did not do anything wrong is besides the point. I don’t care if it’s potentially Al Qaeda-related. It’s besides the point.

Evidence gained from tortured captives is unreliable and often false. To admit something that’s completely unreliable as factual evidence is stupid. To torture someone in order to gain ineffectual evidence is very stupid. To debase the underpinnings of your society and completely legitimize the torturing of US Citizens by foreign powers through your own use of torture is blindingly stupid.

It’s nice to see someone open their eyes and, more importantly, their mouths on this. Putting it in the law books is the first step to banishing it all together.