Rabbi Sol should weigh in here.

In the Talmud or perhaps another Hebraic tome, there is a teaching of 325 wrongs which under certain conditions are counteracted as if they are not wrong but actually right. I understand this but it is a subtle interpretation of every crime is not a crime.

Once you get it however the whole idea of mandatory minimums is a crime.

THe torture by the Bush administration is clearly a crime. Too bad they did not have the intelligence to know that the best way to get information is with money, sex and power...NOT sensless torture.