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Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:00 AM

The CIA's torture teachers

Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics -- likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:01 AM

    Re: Susan Wood,

    The real value of the torturing of innocents is the psychological value for the citizens back home. Jose Padilla was meant to be the 'foreign' American that would open the door to holding regular American citizens as 'enemy combatants'. And no one would want to resist their 'leader' knowing what the results could be.

    Torture is of no benefit in stopping a purported terror attack. The Bush croneys have started to believe their own lies. Either that or Scalia is watching too much 24.

    —The Canadian Read The Canadian's other letters

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