Dick Cheney makes a farce of our 'rule of law': Dahlia Lithwick
(NEWSER) - With his memoir, and accompanying media blitz, Dick Cheney is trying to provoke us into once again discussing the merits of torture, a topic “about as compelling as a debate about the efficacy of slavery or Jim Crow laws,” writes Dahlia Lithwick of Slate . Almost everyone agrees torture isn’t effective, ethical, or legal. Except it must be legal, Lithwick writes, because Cheney got away with it. More»