Mike Potemra calls Marc Thiessen a torture advocate who has disregarded his church’s teaching on the subject — and this in the course of a defense of him! Please, Mike, never rise to my defense.

Previous posts of Marc’s should make it clear that he does not see himself as either an advocate of torture or a dissenter from Catholic teaching. Rather, he does not interpret the inviolable norm against torture as encompassing waterboarding and the other interrogation techniques at issue. Even if he is wrong in his interpretation of the Catechism — which is by no means clear — he is not “disregarding” it.