During the presidential campaign, one of Donald Trump's big applause lines was about the use of torture on our enemies, particularly terror suspects. During a February 2016 GOP debate he said, I would bring back waterboarding. And I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than ...read more

There have been a lot of stupid, at times downright dangerous things said about the recent release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's "torture report," but perhaps none more dangerous than the oft-repeated mantra that "torture is not who we are." That's a pretty high bar, I ...read more