NY Times:
New U.S. Memo Backs Off Torture Arguments. “The Justice Department released a rewritten legal memo on what constitutes torture, backing away from its own assertions prior to the Iraqi prison abuse scandal that torture had to involve ‘excruciating and agonizing pain.’’” Is there anyone in America who hasn’t heard of Chinese water drop, and other water tortures? [popups, beware.] “Pain” and “torture” aren’t necessarily synonymous.
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