Heres a question —

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Here’s a question — one I don’t know the answer to, but one which I suspect may have an uncomfortable answer. We know that Al Gonzales has been White House Counsel for the last four years and that he’s played an instrumental role in several legal findings and memos which have given legal sanction to torture (or what I guess we might call ‘the act formerly known as torture’). What if Gonzales had had some roughly equivalent position in Argentina or Chile in the late 1970s? Would he have faced subsequent legal vulnerability and/or consequences?

Strip the question of drama and theatrics and assumptions. I’m curious to hear a purely factual answer.

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