Slate has an interactive feature on torture. Don’t worry, it’s not that interactive. It’s really just a gussied-up web page, but there’s lots of good information there. They break down all the controversial interrogation techniques, tell you where they’re used, what the official comment is and what the international lawyers say. Better yet, they try to tell a story about how these policies arose and hilight some of the problems torture has caused.

The real legacy of American interrogation practices, post-9/11, is that practices and justifications that should have been reserved for the worst of the worst (assuming we could know who they are) began to be used indiscriminately. In the eyes of the government, they began to seem almost normal. The effect has been to turn America from the world’s leader on many issues of international human-rights law into the world’s tyrant.

Posted in uncategorized on June 20th, 2006 by Brutal Hugger | RSS 2.0 |