Reasonable people can, I suppose, debate whether or not it was sound public policy for the United States to torture subjects apprehended as part of the global war on terrorism. Maybe shoving hummus up a man's rectum and threatening to rape another man's mother were good ideas. Maybe there's a planet on which torturing people who haven't even been interrogated through conventional means is smart. Maybe it made sense to try to copy techniques developed by Communist China for the purpose of extracting false confessions. This, however, does not make sense: "I'd do it again in a minute." -...
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