From the Daily News Spout Off this morning, on punishing CIA agents who torture: “Tell that liberal garbage to the families of 2,740 people who died on 9/11 and thank God that you weren’t one of them.”

In the first place, torture is still a crime, regardless of how p.o.’d the spouter feels. Revenge is not a justification for breaking the law.

In the second place, we’ve documented that our torture victims included people who had no more to do with 9/11 than Saddam did (which is to say nothing whatsoever). We’ve tortured people who were innocent of any crime at all.

And Dick Cheney’s claims to the contrary, there’s not the slightest evidence we’ve ever turned up evidence via torture that prevented another 9/11 or that we couldn’t have gotten the same information legally.

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