Time to Unshackle the Bonds of Apathy and Demand Leadership
Today CIA director Michael Hayden admitted “waterboarding” interrogation had been used on three high-profile al-Qaeda detainees. Waterboarding simulates drowning and, in the minds of the sane, is a form of torture.
Is torture ever justified? A difficult question I will not debate here. What I will discuss is the nature of honesty and the role of just people, particularly our leadership and the news media, in the context of abuse of power.