Dahlia Lithwick and Phillipe Sands write about how the Susan Crawford interview from today’s Washington Post changes the debate about torture. We now have a Pentagon employee stating unequivocally that the United States tortured a detainee, and that torture has prevented us from being able to mount a successful prosecution for his crimes. Now the question is what the Obama administration will do about it.
No longer tantamount
Dahlia Lithwick and Phillipe Sands write about how the Susan Crawford interview from today’s Washington Post changes the debate about torture. We now have a Pentagon employee stating unequivocally that the United States tortured a detainee, and that torture has prevented us from being able to mount a successful prosecution for his crimes. Now the question is what the Obama administration will do about it.
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