Torture Revelations

I don't know why this hadn't occurred to me as a possibility, but it never crossed my mind. I suppose I was so caught up in the even-if arguments: even if you're trying to get information to stop further attacks, even if you're sure they know something, even if you're sure they're bad guys, you still shouldn't torture. 

So wrapped up in that, that I didn't think this might have been your straight-up inquisition-style torture people to make them tell you what you want, even when it's clearly not true. But apparently some of the latest revelations are that the abusive interrogations techniques (i.e. torture) were used to try to prove the false Saddam Hussein - 9/11 attacks link. No wonder they had to waterboard Kalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in a month. The month? March 2003. 

Puts a whole new, disgusting, evil light on things.