I've forced myself to read the
selections of torture documents that the ACLU is posting on its blog each day, and I wish that I had also made a record of my impressions to each as the days have passed. They are consistently shocking, so much so that I sometimes have a hard time believing that they are real. But, these are not the reports of human rights organizations or other outside observers--these are the government's own documents, turned over to us only after years of protracted litigation.
Today's selection describes, in the course of a few sentences, prisoners held in painful heat and cold, deprived of water, covered in their own urine and feces, losing their minds.
Even if you don't read them all, please at least look them over.