On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer once again defended the CIA’s use of torture against terrorism suspects by arguing that the techniques utilized by the CIA do not actually constitute torture … but even if they were it would still be acceptable because terrorism suspects have no legal right not to be tortured.
As Fischer explained, foreign terrorism suspects have no constitutional rights since they are not U.S. citizens, nor do they have any rights under the Geneva Conventions, which means that the U.S. faces no legal prohibition against torturing them.
“They have absolutely no legal rights that they can claim anywhere,” Fischer said. “So whatever treatment we give them, if there is any mercy involved in it, they have no right to that; that is simply because we are a merciful people who are driven by Christian principles”:
