The Bush lawyers were the torturers’ necessary partners, whose work was intended to ensure legal impunity. This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.
布什的律师是刑讯人员不可缺少的搭档。他们的工作是为了确保法律上的免责。这也是新鲜事物：刑讯似乎不是对公共准则的违反，不好但也情有可原。相反，刑讯竟然也有法律标准。