I know you all are going to hate me for sending you over to Andrew Sullivan, but his post on the Schmidt Report (you know, the one the New York Times claims "Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay") really is essential reading, pointing out, first, the means used to avoid saying the obvious -- that what has gone on at Guantanamo fits any ordinary person's definition of torture -- and second, the fact that, whether the investigators feel free to say so or not, this torture was policy, not aberration.

Which is what some people have been trying to tell us for quite a while.

Among the things I didn't want to know: Torture seems to be quite popularBody and Soul

I know you all are going to hate me for sending you over to Andrew Sullivan, but his post on the Schmidt Report (you know, the one the New York Times claims "Discredits F.B.I. Claims of Abuse at Guantánamo Bay") really is essential reading, pointing out, first, the means used to avoid saying the obvious -- that what has gone on at Guantanamo fits any ordinary person's definition of torture -- and second, the fact that, whether the investigators feel free to say so or not, this torture was policy, not aberration.

Which is what some people have been trying to tell us for quite a while.

Among the things I didn't want to know: Torture seems to be quite popular
More from Marty Lederman, Barbara O'Brien, Digby, and The Heretik. Then go read Chris Lombardi on the man who said no to even a reprimand of Geoffrey Miller.
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More from Marty Lederman, Barbara O'Brien, Digby, and The Heretik. Then go read Chris Lombardi on the man who said no to even a reprimand of Geoffrey Miller.