Torture is wrong. You can tell it’s wrong easily, not by the way it makes you feel, or by the extent to which it does or doesn’t conform to ancient moral codes made up in deserts, but by the way that, when it happens, it screws stuff up.
When Barack Obama assumed office four years ago, shutting Guantánamo Bay was one of the first things he was going to do.
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