In our names, to our shame!

Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
ABC News
April 9, 2008
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
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The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.

I am again reminded of Nicholas Eymerich, inquisitor general of the Inquisition of the Crown of Aragon; 1357-1360, 1366(?)-1381(?):

He was the first inquisitor to get around the Church's prohibition against torturing a subject twice by interpreting directive very liberally, permitting a separate instance of torture for a separate charge of heresy.
[Wikipedia entry, Nicholas Eymerich]

His best-known work? A book-length treatise, Directorium Inquisitorum, which

was to become the definitive handbook of procedure for the Spanish Inquisition until into the seventeenth century.

After many years as Inquisitor General, he finally concluded that,

Quaestiones sunt fallaces et inefficaces."
["Torture is deceptive and ineffectual."]

The legalisms of the Spanish Inquisition are documented and discussed in Henry Charles Lea's four-volume treatise, A History of the Inquisition of Spain

Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
Volume Four

Early 20th-century historical prose is a bit dense, but Lea's work provides many parallels between the Spanish Inquisition and the tactics devised by OUR Government in the GWOT.

Stop the madness!