In the past few years, the evidence suggesting that the Bush administration approved torture to question al Qaeda suspects has been overwhelming to say the least. But there have still been few historical accounts to confirm that torture was used, so every new addition to the record of abuse in the War of Terror is important. The latest and most authoritative addition comes from the International Committee for the Red Cross in an article in the New York Review of Books by Mark Danner, a journalism professor and New Yorker contributor.
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