Note to Michele Bachmann: The ACLU is Far From Alone in Opposing Torture by the CIA (or Anyone Else)

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 14, 2011.  In Saturday night’s Republican debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann declared, “Under Barack Obama, he is allowing the ACLU to run the CIA.” Of course, she did not mean it literally, and the next morning on NBC’s Meet the Press she clarified that it was our “philosophy” that was directing CIA policy.

Here’s a clarification for the congresswoman of the ACLU’s philosophy on torture, the topic that prompted her comment: it…