The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
What is needed is not more disclosures but a broadly persuasive judgment, delivered by people who can look at all the evidence, however highly classified, and can claim bipartisan respect on the order of the Watergate Select Committee or the 9/11 Commission, on whether or not torture made Americans safer. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
I think he focuses too much on whether the torture provided useful intelligence. The negative effects and the international illegality and inhumanity of torture seem to deserve more focus.