Tom Malinowski Explicitly Quotations

This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely,

They've never before explicitly asserted that they need the authority to treat prisoners inhumanely. We can't think of any country in the world that has.

They are explicitly saying, for the first time, that the intelligence community should have the ability to treat prisoners inhumanely, ... You can't tell soldiers that inhumane treatment is always morally wrong if they see with their own eyes that C.I.A. personnel are allowed to engage in it.