Doug Feith — he of the Office of Special Plans — has thisto say about those concerned about torturing dudes. Via Paul Kiel, when Feith was asked by a Vanity Fair reporter if he was concerned that denying Geneva Conventions protections to suspected terrorists in U.S. custody would harm America’s moral authority, he sagely replied:
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“The problem with moral authority,” he said, was “people who should know better, like yourself, siding with the assholes, to put it crudely.”