KSM-
Interesting that the two cites you give are old, coming from the time Bush was still in office. If you have been reading a newspaper or watching the news on tv since Obama took office, you cannot have helped but notice that reports and memos that Bush suppressed on the subject of torture are coming to light almost daily.

I’m not detecting any awareness of current events in your posts. Can you give us some 2009 citations that back up your claims?

Also, the number of people you believe were tortured (“3”) seems acceptable to you. Is there any number of tortured prisoners that would concern you?

From your view of US conduct in our military and secret prisons (that nothing that was done constituted torture), does that mean that you would feel no outrage if captured US soldiers or civilians were subjected to the same treatment? It would be acceptable to you. That conclusion seems inescapable going by what you have written.