A Senate investigation is underway, but many of the details are surfacing already.

His question is only underscored by a 1956 article, “Communist Interrogation,” in The Annals of Neurology and Psychiatry, recently turned up by the Intelligence Science Board, which advises the spy agencies....[T]he article shows that methods embraced after 2001 were once considered torture that would produce false information.

Because we refuse to admit that our enemies are, like us, human, and instead understand them as simply one-dimensional caricatures of evil, we loosen our grips on our own moral principles. We say that "this is wrong when they did it because they are evil" but "this is okay when we do it because we are good." This delusion lies at the basis of any rational for violence and war.

Righteous exceptionalism is one of the most dangerous forms of moral relativism.

This is a logical fallacy known as "Special Pleading."