Torture given legality by the US Justice Department

According to the New York Times, the Justice Department has given legality to the CIA to violate international law, and torture people to prevent terrorism.

Now, let's face the facts.

• Torture is unreliable. It just makes the tortured person say what they think we want to hear, not necessarily the truth.
• WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE! I doubt who thinks that any of the "advanced interrogation techniques," banned by international law, that the CIA uses, would be OK if they were subjected to one themselves.
• TORTURE IS TORTURE, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE! Brian Benczkowski from the Justice Department stated that "The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act." That is complete @#$%.

When the United States, which is supposed to embrace freedom, compromises on the values of the constitution, all we are doing is LETTING THE TERRORISTS WIN. When our government begins to rule through fear, we are just as bad as the terrorists. We can't take this @#$% that the executive branch is giving us anymore!