What we talk about when we talk about torture. For the record, the description in the final panel is taken from this article by Mark Danner. Everyone currently seems fixated on waterboarding and waterboarding alone, much in the way that public discourse after the release of the Abu Ghraib photos focused on just how many — or exactly how few — bad apples were involved in that extremely isolated incident which certainly did not have larger implications and only a DFH would think otherwise.
Anyone who’s been paying attention for the past few years knows that waterboarding’s just the start of it. More than 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody, and more than 30 of those have been investigated by the military as homicides.