If you're interested in the legality of waterboarding as torture, read this post by Marty Lederman, an alum of the Office of Legal Counsel. He walks through the legal cover provided by OLC for what the Administration is doing.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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