Connecting the Dots on Torture
  • January 16, 2009

Connecting the Dots on Torture

Connecting the Dots on Torture

It’s a been a while since I was a practicing logician in college, but let me see if I can lay this out.

1) Yesterday, AG designee Eric Holder said, without hesitation that water-boarding is torture.

2) Dick Cheney has admitted authorizing water-boarding.

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It’s a been a while since I was a practicing logician in college, but let me see if I can lay this out.

1) Yesterday, AG designee Eric Holder said, without hesitation that water-boarding is torture.

2) Dick Cheney has admitted authorizing water-boarding.

3) Dick Cheney has admitted authorizing torture.

4) Torture is a felony under US law punishable by up to 20 years of prison.

5) Dick Cheney authorized a felony.

QED, right? Is there any other way to reason through these premises and deductions?

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Chris Hayes Chris Hayes is the Editor-at-Large of The Nation and host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC.


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