The US did not execute Japanese for waterboarding. The cases where Japanese torturers were charged (not necessarily executed) involved a lot more than waterboarding, and a form of "waterboarding" much more dangerous than what is approved by the CIA.
A reader on SERE vs. interrogations. Detainees have the power to stop rough treatment. They can cooperate.
Jonah Goldberg notes it would be nice if the people debating whether torture works would define "torture" and "works". Something I've been saying for a while.
One phrase from the letter: "It is one sad thing that various contributors to the Corner are open consequentialists who believe good enough ends justify evil means."
What, exactly, is an "evil means"?
An adage the intelligence and law enforcement agencies may be taking ever more to heart: He who does nothing does nothing wrong.
Do we want our guardians doing nothing?
Jim Manzi points out that in contests between the US and nations that engage in systematic torture, we keep winning. That in itself is reason to eschew torture. (Whatever that works out to mean.)
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