Torture is wrong. It's. Just. Plain. Wrong. It doesn't work, it harms our nation, and it's ... wrong.
This "compromise" which isn't a compromise allows the President to define what torture is and carves out certain definitions of torture, something the Geneva Conventions were expressly trying to avoid (if countries start defining torture for themselves ... well you can see where that leads).
And we as Democrats shouldn't be afraid to speak of this in moral tones. I released a letter today to the media in my district ... below the fold: