Blair and Bush's Torture Travelogue

Article on Peter Taylor's documentary 'The Secret War On Terror' by Rachel Cooke

“The banality of evil" is a phrase much overused, but I can't think of a better one in this instance. The Bush administration treated the map of the world as a kind of torture brochure. "If you want good intelligence, send him to Syria; if you want him to disappear, send him to Cairo," said one spook. And Morocco? Oh, Morocco. The treats in store. "You can get what you want in Morocco." Hell, those guys even pull fingernails out. Meanwhile, Donald Rumsfeld was scribbling in the margins of classified documents. Why shouldn't detainees have to stand for longer than four hours at a time? The Rumsfeldinator can stand for six to eight hours a day!  From Here.