As written in the previous post, much of the pseudo-clinical language in Justice Department torture memos just released rings only too familiar. The would-be judiciousness with which foregone conclusions are reached, the application of only the most strained legal authority, the willing participation of professionals in law, medicine and the social sciences who should have known better--we've been there before. This common-sense proposition is almost a truism. But since the lying and spinning have already begun, obviously in an effort to make this chapter like others disappear into the memory hole--and entirely for the political or professional advantage of a few . . .   more »