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"a law that effectively bans torture."- Feinstein
In an era where the Army/CIA/Military routinely enlist the misuse of the medical field (psychiatry and medical doctors) to perpetrate particular techniques upon certain "terrorist" "detainees", is there any wonder they've succeeded in obscuring what constitutes torture?
There is no ambiguity in what the AFM and GC codified decades ago as constituting torture. We all know what it is. The moment we place our lives and those we love under the power of some trained or untrained interrogator who feels they're on a mission for god and country, the machismo and bravado crumbles.
As written earlier in my comments- You can't resist the harshest assaults to the body and mind for extensive periods. You will be destroyed physically and mentally, unless, of course you're Robert Patrick in "Terminator II."
