Bottom line: Not only do waterboarding and the other types of torture currently being debated put us in company with the most vile regimes of the past half-century; they're also designed specifically to generate a (usually false) confession, not to obtain genuinely actionable intel. Bottom line: Not only do newpapers, television and the other types of mass communications currently being inflicted on the public put us in company with the most vile regimes of the past half-century; they're also designed specifically to generate a (usually false) impression, not to diseminate genuinely intelligent, factual information.
David Corn is positively obsessed with torture. There's this S&M club in New York, right across from the YMCA in Manhattan, and 7 of 9's hubby took her there, and that's why he got dropped from the Republican ticket in Illinois.
I suspect David is "belly up to the bar" in that place ~ all too often.