Leon Panetta: "No Torture. No Exceptions." That's what his CIA post means.

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0801.panetta.html

ccording to the latest polls, two-thirds of the American public believes that torturing suspected terrorists to gain important information is justified in some circumstances. How did we transform from champions of human dignity and individual rights into a nation of armchair torturers? One word: fear.

Fear is blinding, hateful, and vengeful. It makes the end justify the means. And why not? If torture can stop the next terrorist attack, the next suicide bomber, then what's wrong with a little waterboarding or electric shock?

The simple answer is the rule of law. Our Constitution defines the rules that guide our nation. It was drafted by those who looked around the world of the eighteenth century and saw persecution, torture, and other crimes against humanity and believed that America could be better than that. This new nation would recognize that every individual has an inherent right to personal dignity, to justice, to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.

Leon Panetta knows that waterboarding is torture. People in the CIA afraid of Panetta being CIA chief -- maybe they don't need to be in the CIA.

Good one, Mr. Obama.

[NNN0LHI]

1. Republicans and a few "suspect" Dems hate Panetta

Which means I like Panetta.

Don

[Kahuna]

2. I like him a lot. He's just so cool. It's no wonder Obama is drawn to him..

Birds of a feather...

[madrchsod]

3. the cia knows torture does`t work 99% of the time

there`s going to be a few who will be looking for work....