"Senator Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, in a different heated exchange with Mr. Ashcroft, asked him if he believed torture was ever justified. When he first declined to answer, Mr. Biden accused him of being evasive and he replied: 'You know I condemn torture.'
One of the memorandums published in newspapers over the last two days, dated March 6, 2002, provides elaborate and tightly constructed definitions of torture. For example, If an interrogator 'knows that severe pain will result from his actions, if causing such harm is not his objective, he lacks the requisite specific intent even though the defendant did not act in good faith,' the report said. 'Instead, a defendant is guilty of torture only if he acts with the express purpose of inflicting severe pain or suffering on a person within his control.'"
Well, how about if we field-test forms of interrogation causing non-severe pain on YOU, Mr Attorney General? Then you can verify that it's not the form of torture that you condemn.
Seems fair to me.
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