TORTURE MEMOS

Andrew Sullivan is reading them so I don't have to, which is fine by me.

This will sustain as one of the year's most chilling sentences:

"Human beings were contorted into classic stress positions used by the Gestapo; they had towels tied around their necks in order to smash their bodies against walls; they were denied of all sleep for up to eleven days and nights at a time; they were stuck in tiny suffocating boxes; they were waterboarded just as the victims of the Khmer Rouge were waterboarded."

Read more analysis here. The memo pdfs can be downloaded here.