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Hop on a search engine and find a column entitled "Torture's Long Shadow" by Vladimir Bukovsky that appeared in the December 18, 2005 edition of the Washington Post.
Jeffrey Shaffer: Torture: Do You Say Use It, or Lose It? 2009
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Torture's harvest, whatever it may truly be, is very unlikely to have outweighed those costs.
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Danner, Mark 2009
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Joe on Morning Joe this A.M.; "Torture's okay if the detainee is bad enough."
Rudy Emerges As McCain's Front Man On Terror, Bashes Obama As "Defensive" 2009
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Torture's recent prominent use by the United States came about in an attempt to promote a far worse crime than torture, the crime of aggressive war.
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Torture's powerful symbolic role, like many ugly, shameful facts, is left unacknowledged and undiscussed.
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Danner, Mark 2009
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Richard Cohen of the Washington Post has a column called "Torture's Unanswerable Questions, Torture's Ugly Debate", in which he employs the self-Socratic method to subtly argue against prosecuting America's war criminals.
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And as we would learn later, the OLC had secretly concluded that the Convention Against Torture's prohibition on cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment did not apply to foreigners held in CIA custody abroad.
The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers Cole, David 2009
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Torture's counter-productive effects have been documented
OpEdNews - Quicklink: 'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies by Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern 2008
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TV Torture's Toxic Toll yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'TV Torture\'s Toxic Toll'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: TV torture disguises an especially degenerate form of brutality as a necessary evil to protect national security.
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Michael C. Martino Glen Rock, N. J.I agree totally with Sen. John McCain when he argues that torture of prisoners is ineffective and counterproductive ( "Torture's Terrible Toll").
Mail Call 2007
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