This article has a whole truckload of "smoking guns", as well as apologia for torture's proponents.

A quality report on the Bush Administration's torture of a few prisoners. The time line is really the jist of the the story. The republican's cannot turn back time.

good presentation of allegations and facts,debunking much of what has been said was fruit of torture, It did not bring up that the U S has executed forgien nationals for water boarding US POWs or that as rfecently as the 1980s a federal court in Houston ruled that the confessions given under water torture were illegal and forbiddden US v Parker.

Fascinating discussion of the allegations of effectiveness of torture for uncovering useful information, with some discussions of ethical concerns, legality, and effect on foreign relations.

Other than being framed on the question of effectiveness rather than legality or morality, Warrick and Finn provide a good analysis of the news, and point out moral and legal questions, along with crucial points that destroy Cheney-ites claims of effectiveness because info was gathered prior to the torture they claim produced it.

A very good story, offers a few time lines and perspectives of FBI operatives, detainees and how they were treated. reading between the lines is tough.. The upshot is its going to be hard to clarify what happened exactly.

This sentence in the 4th graf screams that one should doubt the story: "According to the agency's own accounting, Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times during his first four weeks in a CIA secret prison." Going to the max number of 28, that's a bit more than 6.5 waterboardings per day. One has to doubt that the CIA's alleged "accounting" reached anything close to 183 waterboardings on one man in one month. The first 182 times didn't work, and the 183rd did the trick? Come on. Among ... More »