Tonylee makes an untrue statement. CIA documents actually do not collaborate that intelligence obtained from torture prevented ANY imminent attacks (the proposed intent of torture). Incidentally, torture is historically used to extract confessions, not intelligence. A man under such duress will say anything to make it stop after all. It has also been proven that under such duress (torture) the truth is often hard to extract from one's memory. May make great movies, but torture didn't work!
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President Obama has done the most important thing: reversing Bush's policy and declaring, as he did last week, that torture was unequivocally wrong. What we need now is a public airing through congressional hearings and perhaps an independent commission, an idea that the White House is resisting. Pursuing criminal charges would be too hard politically and too easy morally. Prosecuting Bush and his men won't absolve the rest of us for what we let them do.
Weisberg is editor in chief of the Slate Group and author of “The Bush Tragedy.” A version of this column also appears on Slate.com.
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