Dershowitz on Torture

This article by Alan Dershowitz is worth reading. He condemns the Democrats who did not confirm AG nominee Mukasey, positing that any President would authorize torture if he thought it would help save lives. This paragraph is especially interesting: Although I am personally opposed to the use of torture, I have no doubt that any president -- indeed any leader of a democratic nation -- would in fact authorize some forms of torture against a captured terrorist if he believed that this was the only way of securing information necessary to prevent an imminent mass casualty attack. The only dispute is whether he would do so openly with accountability or secretly with deniability. The former seems more consistent with democratic theory, the latter with typical political hypocrisy. So, which one is Bush? Is he torturing openly with accountability, or secretly with deniability? Typical political hypocrisy, I guess.