Anyone not already furious with the Bush administration's attempt to legalize torture as a general interrogation practice, rather than a case-specific emergency tactic, should first read this.
Then, if you still think torture works, go back and read it again. And again.
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Tristero, who is also disgusted by Bush's de facto admission that he authorized torture, writes (emphasis original):
Helmut is one of those bloggers who doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Since torture seems to be under discussion by the A-list bloggers, I want to follow up on a point Helmut made in his Congressional testimony about torture.
In yesterday's NY Times, Ali Soufan, an F.B.I. supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005 who worked on counterterrorism, wrote a devastating indictment of the failure of torture to collect useful intelligence.