Please define torture. Putting someone's head under water, during controlled sessions, for 30 seconds, and then yelling "who gave you the bomb _____ !!!" is rude but it is not torture, especially when the bastard being questioned may have killed a dozen of our kids with a roadside bomb.

Well, it isn't torture in the sense of pulling out fingernails with pliers or cutting off parts with a dull knife, but it's pretty close.

And the operative phrase is "may have." It's reasonable to assume that some of the ones this is being done do didn't do anything much. "Military intelligence" is right up there with "military music" and "military justice."

Peter.