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How often these days the world feels like we’ve fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole! To paraphrase Alice, nothing is what it is because everything is what it isn’t. We're told waterboarding isn’t torture and that to make the United States safe we have to violate our own laws and standards and reinstitute secret prisons and torture, policies we were wrong to use in the first place.
 
But that’s exactly the argument being made by most of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination, as well as what is embodied in a shocking amendment offered by Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire on the Defense Authorization bill.  It appears that Ayotte won’t get a vote this time on bringing back secret, illegal interrogations that amount to torture, but chances are, the senator will find another opportunity to offer her amendment.  Furthermore, the issue continues to come up on the presidential campaign trail, so it’s one we cannot be satisfie! d to think is over.
 

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