The Justice Department has broadened its definition of torture, significantly retreating from a memorandum in August 2002 that defined torture extremely narrowly and said President Bush could ignore domestic and international prohibitions against torture in the name of national security.
Who signed off on that 8/02 memo that we are backpeddling so quickly from? Why that's right! It was the current nominee for attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. I'd prefer my attorney general not support torture, but maybe that's just me.
Obviously these actions were condoned at the /highest/ levels of government, yet only a few grunts have been punished.
Typical.
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