Gingrich On Torture

He was once a Reaganite:

As I said in China this spring, there is no place for abuse in what must be considered the family of man. There is no place for torture and arbitrary detention. There is no place for forced confessions. There is no place for intolerance of dissent. While we walked through the Rotunda. I explained to President Jiang how the roots of American rule of law go back more than 700 years, to the signing of the Magna Carta. The foundation of American values, therefore, is not a passing priority or a temporary trend.

Does any conservative believe we won the Cold War by defending torture, or finding linguistic ways to define it out of existence?

(Hat tip: Sam Stein.)

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