Ted Rall for February 18, 2008
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Transcript:
Today's legal quandry: can the government use evidence gathered from waterboarding to execute someone it killed through waterboarding? Um... Did you say "drown him"? Or "make him think he's drowning"? Carrying out the death penalty before gathering evidence is OK. As long as the evidence eventually proves admissible in a military torture court, the lethal gathering evidence process is legal. Isn't it true, Mr. Al Corpsa, that you hate America? Yes - now! I mean no. After killing the future convict, the government must resuscitate the condemned man in order to read him his sentence. In the name of the horned one, the commander-in-chief of darkness, arise! Finally, after hearing his Miranda warnings, the man may be rekilled while gathering evidence for his next trial. "You have the right... the right..." well, that's pretty much it.
