Ethics

Is It Torture When Done To Americans?

By Ed Brayton

We know the Bush apologists claim that the use of stress positions, sleep deprivation, waterboarding and the like isn't torture when done by Americans, but what if it's done to Americans? We have always treated it as torture in the past, but now we may get a current example after two journalists were arrested and imprisoned in North Korea. Spencer Ackerman, who will be a guest on my radio show on Thursday, asks the relevant questions:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).