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Subjectivity and Lawlessness
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- "While the administration says that the post-9/11 world demands greater flexibility to use 'cruel, inhuman or degrading' pressure or punishment, the [Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment] includes a provision [Part I, Article 2, Item 2] that precludes this argument: 'No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other emergency, may be invoked to justify torture.' . . . The notion that the conduct of the enemies we face is so lawless that we should make exceptions to the normal rules is a formula for subjectivity and lawlessness."
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