More evidence that torture was used to come up with an Iraq-AQ link
Fatally, it was also, according to the Senate report, a way to coerce evidence of an al Qaeda-Saddam link. Remember that the Bush-Cheney techniques were most aggressively used by the Communist Chinese to extract false confessions. These false confessions legitimized the torture and provided the justification for the next torture. This is the Imaginationland some of us have been worried about for quite a while now. Once you have abandoned the rule of law and placed your trust in the hands of human beings with the power to torture, there is no returning. All you can do at some point is turn the lights on and see exactly the human wreckage and reality that remains.
Hooray.
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