Eric Haney, founding member of a military counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force: 

“I ask, who would you want to pay to
be a torturer? Do you want someone that the American public pays to
torture? He’s an employee of yours. It’s worse than ridiculous. It’s
criminal; it’s utterly criminal. This administration has been masters
of diverting attention away from real issues and debating the silly.
Debating what constitutes torture: Mistreatment of helpless people in
your power is torture, period. And (I’m saying this as) a man who has
been involved in the most pointed of our activities. I know it, and all
of my mates know it. You don’t do it. It’s an act of cowardice. I hear
apologists for torture say, “Well, they do it to us.” Which is a
ludicrous argument. … The Saddam Husseins of the world are not our
teachers. Christ almighty, we wrote a Constitution saying what’s legal
and what we believed in. Now we’re going to throw it away.”

Link.

-MAD-