Torture by any other name...

... remains a crime against humanity, and is certainly no method to convince would-be fundamentalist terrorists to see the light of democratic principles of freedom, rights, and justice.

So, that means, Auntie Times got it right again:

The New York Times
Editorial
On Torture and American Values
Published: October 7, 2007
Once upon a time, it was the United States that urged all nations to obey the letter and the spirit of international treaties and protect human rights and liberties. American leaders denounced secret prisons where people were held without charges, tortured and killed. And the people in much of the world, if not their governments, respected the United States for its values.
The Bush administration has dishonored that history and squandered that respect. As an article on this newspaper’s front page last week laid out in disturbing detail, President Bush and his aides have not only condoned torture and abuse at secret prisons, but they have conducted a systematic campaign to mislead Congress, the American people and the world about those policies. [...]
Is this a nation that tortures human beings and then concocts legal sophistries to confuse the world and avoid accountability before American voters?