Electro-Spanking of War Babies

NYT has an article about the Gonzales confirmation. They describe the argument over whether Gonzalez helped facilitate the torture of innocents and prisoners of war. It serves as an excellent example of the "he said-she said" journalism. It reminds us of a bad high school policy debate.
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Democrats said that as White House counsel, Mr. Gonzales had helped devise policies that narrowed the definition of "torture" and led to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, tarnishing America's image abroad and making the country less secure.

But the Judiciary Committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said today that Mr. Gonzales had built "an extraordinary record," professionally and personally, and despite his critics' insinuations to the contrary, Mr. Gonzales has explicitly opposed torture.
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and...they leave us with that. The article doesn't even make it clear as to whether or not Gonzales ever wrote a memo. Did he write any memos? Who knows. Maybe the democrats are just making this up.

Also...Specter's argument that Gonzales has an "extraordinary record" does not deny the existence of any memos and whether or not they condoned torture.

Did these memos condone torture? Can that only be determined from opinion or can it be factually verified.

God damn it. The New York Times says "no comment."