"Indifference" to Torture?
After reading all the reports, Andrew Sullivan addresses the torture issue with bracing specificity.. I fear, however, that it's too kind to condemn Bush as merely "indifferent" to torture. Alas, I suspect he supports it. Torture in a righteous cause is the slipperiest of slippery slopes--all the more reason to make a categorical rule.
Remember, torture (notably but not exclusively rape) goes on every day in our domestic civilian prisons, with far less justification than interrogation, and we make jokes about it on TV shows. That most of this abuse is by prisoners of prisoners doesn't excuse the justice system, which is not merely indifferent but complicit, using the threat of prison abuse to coerce pleas.