"In the 10 years between the last known use of these manuals in the early 1990s and the arrest of Al Qaeda suspects since September 2001, torture was maintained as a US intelligence practice by delivering suspects to foreign agencies, including the Philippine National Police, who broke a bomb plot in 1995."

My appologies. The article is a little unclear on when and how the CIA stopped using the practice. It is clear from this passage that during the Clinton administration they intentionally delivered prisoners to foreign countries precisely to see that they revealed what they knew through US developed torture techniques. That is much better than actually torturing anyone yourself.

"What Strick is also conveniently ignoring, is that the Clinton administration never made any attempt to publicly acknowledge or justify the use of these torture methods by our "allies", and in fact, never condoned the use of torture by any US agents, for military or intelligence purposes..."

No, they just took advantage of our allies who use them whenever they thought they needed them. How would acknowledging the practices have made the Clinton administration any less co-conspirators in their use, Guest?

I agree with you and others, Clint. Stop the practice. And don't go around it by using surrogates, that's just as heinous.

(Kudzuman, I type too fast sometimes, but I'm curious. Do you think "Just wondering if that is a possibility?" is a complete sentence or were you trying to be ironic?)