Eric Martin rounds up old quotes about torture from "some of the nation's leading moral/ethical voices." My favorite:

"[The perpetrators of torture] deserve jail or execution, and will probably get one or both...[Torture] should be dealt with very, very harshly."

That was before he realized that Republicans had perpetrated it.

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