Torture Still Doesn't Work

For centuries, torture has been used to make people say anything the torturer wants.

Torture works," an American special forces major -- now, needless to say, a colonel -- boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago. It seems that the CIA and its hired thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq still believe this. There is no evidence that rendition and beatings and waterboarding and the insertion of metal pipes into men's anuses -- and, of course, the occasional torturing to death of detainees -- has ended. Full Story »

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Graham Wilkins
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by Graham Wilkins - Oct. 1, 2008

Robert Fisk has the well earned respect for his objective and fair journalism

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