Utter lawlessness

Digby, widely considered one of the most informed and articulate of progressive bloggers, has some comments anent [dang, I don't get to use that archaic term often enough] "Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, the legal adviser at Guantanamo Bay, repeatedly refus[ing] to call the hypothetical waterboarding of an American pilot by the Iranian military torture."

This Air Force General, a legal advisor for Guantanamo, is unwilling to say that waterboarding an American airman is illegal under the Geneva Conventions. That means that the new policy of the United States is that waterboarding is a-ok.
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The United States has clearly abrogated the Geneva Conventions. In fact, the treaties may now just be dead altogether. The Bush administration killed them.

If that isn't scary, nothing is, my friends.

--the BB