It contends that numerous laws and treaties forbidding torture or cruel treatment should not apply to U.S. interrogations in foreign lands because of the president's inherent wartime powers.
I would have thought that the laws and treaties forbidding torture or cruel treatment were in place specifically to address wartime.
Interrogators who harmed a prisoner would be protected by a "national and international version of the right to self-defense," [memo author John] Yoo wrote.[...]
"Whether conduct is conscience-shocking turns in part on whether it is without any justification," Yoo wrote, explaining, for example, that it would have to be inspired by malice or sadism before it could be prosecuted.
Looking at those pictures from Abu Ghraib, I have to wonder what that sentiment is those guards are expressing if not malice or sadism. Jolly entertainment?
Self-defense.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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