They hate us for our freedoms

From Balkinization

Last fall, Majid Khan was at the center of an amazing piece of litigation: his lawyers filed a motion demanding that they be allowed to see him, and the government opposed it, claiming that the meeting might lead to the disclosure of classified methods of acquiring information. In other words, Majid Khan might tell his lawyers what his captors did to him.

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In another post he points out that torture doesn't become something else just because we call it "red turtle" or whatever phrase the Republican candidates for President prefer.