http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-6-000-page-report-on-cia-torture-has-now-been-suppressed-for-1-year/282318/
I never could understand how we justified the expenditure and moral cost of torturing detainees. Torture is as old as written history, and we've always known its only purpose ever is simply to gratify the torturers on very base levels. People torture just to torture, there's nothing deeper than that, and we haven't learned anything new that's temporally actionable or profound about human nature by indulging this facet of our society. In this modern era of satellite and drone surveillance, data-mining and wiretapping, and all that rigamarole, it seems to me that if you have the intel you need to capture your intended torture subject, you have access to all the intel torturing him or her could net you -- if not reams more. It makes no sense that we do shit like stress-positions, water boarding, electrocution, rape, et cetera.
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