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