Adam Blickstein at Democracy Arsenal demolishes Tim Pawlenty's assumptions about the CIA and interrogations, but there's another telling remark Pawlenty made that I want to highlight:
Having the Democrats watch your money and keep an eye over your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend.
So torturing dogs is really terrible but torturing people is fine?
I'm sure a conservative might argue that torturing terrorists is fine, but none of the people who were tortured were actually convicted of any crimes, and the IG report itself notes that "Agency officers report that reliance on
analytical assessments that were usupported by credible intelligence may have resulted in the application of EITs without justification," which was bound to happen if you assume that (a) torturing terrorists is okay and (b) anyone in U.S. custody is a terrorist--you end up torturing someone who isn't.
-- A. Serwer
