Well, the Senate report on torture is out, and it appears that Rumsfeld and His Evil Minions^™ were authorizing torture before the infamous memos justifying such behavior had been drafted, despite the fact that numerous experts on interrogation said that it torture does not work.

Notably, it was based on the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training which was used to allow captured Americans to resist torture designed to elicit false confessions.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice et all did not care. They just wanted to torture out of a combination of sadism and machismo.

That being said, I do like the last line of the article, “If torture occurred before the memo was written, it’s not worth the paper it’s written on, and the writing of the memo is potentially criminal.”

In a related note, we now know the answer to the question, “Why waterboard someone 183 times in one month?”

They did it for propaganda purposes, specifically, in order to extract false statements linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein”

The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

Seriously, these people need to spend the rest of their lives in a SUPERMAX facility.