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The Gray Lady’s Torture Problem

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In studying the paper's reporting over a period of year, when a neighbor plays his stereo too loudly in the apartment next door, that is "torture." But when a man is stripped of his clothing, chained to the floor in a short-shackle position, subjected to sleep deprivation and alternating cold and heat, and left to writhe in his own feces and urine""that, in the world of the Times, is just an "enhanced interrogation technique."
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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