Misstep

The ACLU stepped on a pile of dog shit yesterday.

In preparation for the much-anticipated release of the Senate's summary report on CIA torture, the head of one of the country's leading rights groups on Monday proposed a controversial solution to ensure that such crimes are never committed by the American government again: pardon President Bush and those who tortured.

Published in the New York Times op-ed pages, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero argues that an executive pardon by President Obama "may be the only way to establish, once and for all, that torture is illegal."

See the rest of it here.

Full disclosure:  The ACLU once got me off of a bad rap, so I have a proclivity to admire the organization.  But this is plainly wrongheaded.


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