Getting back into the fray

Senator Gregg,
Now that it has become abundantly clear that there was dissent within the Bush Administration about the legality and use of "enhanced interrogation", i.e. torture, on detainees under our control (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008052102668.html?hpid=moreheadlines) I am wondering if you have changed your position on this at all? When I have written to you previously about this, what I get back is a regurgitation of Bush Executive Branch talking points, not any sort of independent reasoning for which I believe the people of the State of New Hampshire elected you. What is your position on torture as was sanctioned by the Bush Administration? What is your response to this report that demonstrated that there were serious questions at the highest level about the legality, to the extent that the Justice Department even started a "War Crimes" file? What does this tell you? What does your own conscience tell you?

Paul K. Courtney