Our New Politics of Torture (Mark Danner, interviewed by Hugh Eakin) from the New York Review of Books
"What I think is strictly speaking new is, first, how amateurish the torture program was. It was really amateur hour, beginning with the techniques themselves, which were devised and run by a couple of retired Air Force psychologists ... They had no expertise in terrorism or counterterrorism, had never interrogated al-Qaeda members or anyone else for that matter. ... The second great revelation is the degree to which the CIA claimed great results, and did so mendaciously."
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