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.....Having been the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, I'm aware of what some of these captives did....[T]he evidence against most -- if not all -- of the high-value detainees remains damning. But the issue is not about who or what they are. It is about who or what we are. With the release of these OLC memos, I can add three .....comments..... 1. The focus on water-boarding misses the main point of the program. Which is that it was a program. Unlike the image of using intense physical coercion as a quick, desperate expedient, the program developed "interrogation plans"...