WE don’t like our evil to be banal.

If anyone deserves blame, it was promiscuous, sinister-looking
lowlifes like Lynddie England, Charles Graner and the other grunts

Judge Bybee’s résumé tells us that he has four children and is both a
Cubmaster for the Boy Scouts and a youth baseball and basketball
coach.

As an assistant attorney general, he was the author of the Aug. 1,
2002, memo endorsing in lengthy, prurient detail interrogation
“techniques” like “facial slap (insult slap)” and “insects placed in a
confinement box.”

He proposed using 10 such techniques “in some sort of escalating
fashion, culminating with the waterboard, though not necessarily
ending with this technique.”

As soon as Bybee gave the green light, torture followed:

Zubaydah was waterboarded at least 83 times in August 2002

Unsurprisingly, it appears that no significant intelligence was gained
by torturing this mentally ill Al-Qaeda functionary.

So why the overkill?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/2

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