NY Times admits "Enhanced Interrogation" is torture

[thesquanderer]

from

http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/08/07/the-executive-editor-on-the-word-torture/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Far more is now understood, such as that the C.I.A. inflicted the suffocation technique called waterboarding 183 times on a single detainee and that other techniques, such as locking a prisoner in a claustrophobic box, prolonged sleep deprivation and shackling people’s bodies into painful positions, were routinely employed in an effort to break their wills to resist interrogation.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department, under both the Bush and Obama administrations, has made clear that it will not prosecute in connection with the interrogation program. The result is that today, the debate is focused less on whether the methods violated a statute or treaty provision and more on whether they worked
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from now on, The Times will use the word “torture” to describe incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information.

Duh.

Good readers' comments on that page.

[DeadLetterOffice]

1. Double-plus good...

Somewhere, George Orwell is laughing his ass off.