Update on Torture 

Update on Torture

The latest is a detailed account of "extraordinary rendition"--the U.S. sending captives to countries that are willing to torture them. (Long version by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker; short version by Bob Herbert in the NYT; via Julian Sanchez, Hit and Run.

Marty Lederman has been all over the issue of the extent to which the Bush Administration has authorized any of its operatives to carry out what most of us would consider torture. (On Balkinization). The upshot seems to be that people at the level of Rumsfeld and above have tried to maintain deniability for the claim that "they support torture," but they have managed to convey the message to people in the field that they do. See here, here, and here.

Commenting on one of these posts, Mickey Kaus said we may be "asymptopically approaching the truth."

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