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Getting Away With Torture

“The reason Cheney keeps saying that torture is ‘legal’ is because he has a clutch of worthless legal memoranda saying so. Cheney gets away with saying torture is ‘legal’ even though it isn’t because if it were truly illegal, he and those who devised the torture regime would have faced legal consequences—somewhere, somehow.”

Dahlia Lithwick on Dick Cheney’s legacy/memoir/shadow. Click here for the full article at Slate.