We Don’t Torture
Barack Obama’s first act as America’s president was to ban torture immediately. But his preferred response to the Bush administration's abuses - - looking forward rather than to the past - is proving to be impossible, for a refusal to look back will burden the future with greater perils.
New York – Asked in September 2006 whether there was anything wrong with the way American interrogators were handling “high-value” prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, and elsewhere, President George W. Bush famously responded: “We don’t torture.”