Torture Gets A Pass, But Letter Writing…

So, you can apparently torture without recourse in America:

The Obama administration on Thursday released top secret memos outlining the legal rationale used to justify the CIA’s torture of terror suspects, but vowed not to prosecute the torturers.

“It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

But, defending a Guantanamo prisoner and writing a letter detailing his torture, welp.. that’ll get your ass sent to jail:

A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who accused a Bay Area company of flying him to foreign torture chambers for the CIA is at the center of a bizarre new case, in which his lawyers face possible jail sentences for writing a letter that asked President Obama to disclose how brutally he was treated.

Only in America.

See Also: A Light At The End Of The Torture Tunnel, Torture Prosecutions Still On The Table, WH Press Secy: There Will Be No Accountability For Torture, Olbermann: “President Obama, You Are Wrong”, The CIA waterboarded two people 266 times… Do you feel safer?, Torture: I’m talking to Yoo, Torture: Obama Is on a Slippery Slope, and This Week In the Conservative Underbelly: Tea Parties, Torture, and Telling.

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