If the enemy tortures, it defines their moral evil and all intelligence gleaned from such coercion is self-evidently false propaganda. If we do it, it isn't wrong, and it leads to good intelligence. Got that? And these people have the gall to describe their ideological opponents as moral relativists.

Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped f…

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disrega…

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

Experienced military and intelligence professionals know that torture, in addition to being illegal and immoral, is an unreliable means of extracting informati…

What al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein did was an extreme form of sadistic torture, the kind that psychopaths enjoy and inflict. But that does not make, say, freezin…

Torture gives false information. And the worst scenarios that tortured detainees coughed up - many of them completely innocent, remember - may well have come t…