Before the Pentagon's detainee interrogation policy was finalized in 2002, military officials -- both supporters and opponents of the controversial techniques it condoned -- concerned themselves primarily with protecting their organizations from scrutiny rather than with preventing the techniques from being instituted in the first place. [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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When this nation started to debate the issue of using torture, we lost any kind of status of being above it. What a sad national commentary to bequeath to my children and their children. We have been brought low by those within our own society. Bin Laden didn’t even have to try.
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