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Chris Floyd: The Torture Election

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Torture is at the very heart of the Bush presidency, the most quintessential manifestation of its governing philosophy-a "Commander-in-Chief" state, where presidential directives can override any law in the name of "national security." The use of torture demonstrates that not even the most heinous crimes-including techniques used by Nazi sadists and KGB brutes-are beyond the pale of the "unitary executive's" arbitrary will.

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