enhanced interrogation methods

You know an op-ed’s going to be good when it starts out like this:

FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. I have spoken only in closed government hearings, as these matters were classified. But the release last week of four [...]

Despite last week’s release of four Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos, at least one Department of Justice opinion is still undisclosed.

The CIA has reportedly just confirmed — conveniently late on a Friday afternoon — that 12 of the videotapes it destroyed while its interrogation methods were under investigation and the subject of a pending lawsuit depicted the “enhanced interrogation methods” that detainees’ advocates were worried about.