personally )and i am the daughter of a former marine gunerery sgt who happened to be a vietnam pow and he would say the same if he was still with us) wtf the united states of america is not suposed to condon torture of any kind what so ever, in that being the laying of hands on another to deliberatly harm them, etc,, we are supposed to be the good guys,, the very fact that we are even considering the legal technicalities of weather or not torture is torture speaks volumes about what our culture is becoming and frankly its not looking to be a good transition, sure the job is harder without some kinds of info, but that doesnt mean we lower ourselves to using the enemeys tactics, torture is wrong period