There’s a Better Way to Handle the Torture Controversy

• By Don Wolfensberger
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• June 9, 2009, Midnight

Shortly after Republicans took control of Congress in 1995, the new House Majority Leader, then-Rep. Dick Armey (Texas), was asked by reporters whether it was “payback time.” Were Republicans going to take revenge on the Democrats for all the abuses that they had heaped on the GOP minority over the previous 40 years?