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Does It Matter If You Call It ‘Torture’?

By | 12.17.08 | 2:50 pm

As every lawyer knows, language matters. Bill Clinton was famously impeached because his definition of “sexual relations” didn’t include oral sex – a definition that Republican lawyers didn’t agree with.

So does it matter if the interrogation techniques that were used, authorized and encouraged by senior officials in the US More…