GOP candidates quietly put torture back on the table

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-candidates-quietly-put-torture-back-the-table

In the last presidential election, the issue of Bush/Cheney-era torture policies rarely come up. On his first day in office, President Obama issued an executive order limiting interrogators to tactics approved in the Army Field Manual, and by 2012, few Republicans were publicly challenging the policy.

Behind the scenes, Mitt Romney’s advisers reportedly wrote a memo, privately recommending that he “rescind and replace” the no-torture policy, permitting secret “enhanced interrogation techniques against high-value detainees,” but the GOP nominee made no real effort to make this part of his national platform....

Pressed by reporters on whether he would prohibit waterboarding, Jeb Bush replied, “I’m not ruling anything in or out.” In case voters needed a reminder that the Florida Republican has surrounded himself with his brother’s team, the former governor added, “There’s a difference between enhanced interrogation techniques and torture. America doesn’t torture.”...

Jeb’s not alone, of course. On the topic of interrogation techniques, Ben Carson said in the recent Fox News debate, “You know, what we do in order to get the information that we need is our business, and I wouldn’t necessarily be broadcasting what we’re going to do.”

[COLGATE4]

1. All these numnuts are just playing 'up the ante' with whoever

is shooting off his mouth at the moment. Since the illustrious healer Ben Carson ("First, do no harm&quot decided that torture was A-OK so long as we don't talk about it all the 'me-tooers' are trying to get their 2 cents in. The Sound and the Fury, signifying nothing.