And here is a piece about it carried in today's issue of that raving left-wing publication, The Financial Times - Dismay at legal justifications for torture

With this thought provoking quote by "Harold Hongju Koh, dean of Yale University's law school and a former US assistant secretary of state":

"The notion that the president has the constitutional power to permit torture is like saying he has the constitutional power to commit genocide."

Mind you there are probably lawyers in the pay of the Bush administration who would have no difficulty in putting together a legal justification for precisely that, if they haven't already. After all, there are precedents enough.