It's torture! QED

With the announcement the other day that some alleged perpetrators of 9/11 are to be put on trial at Gitmo later this year, brace yourself for a revival of the subject of water-boarding, torture, etc. - as it should be.      This report under the headline "Former senior Bush official on torture: 'I think what they did was wrong'" of a Memo from The Guardian won't please the powers-that-be....

"A senior Bush administration official and former head of the 9/11 Commission has described CIA interrogation techniques used on alleged terrorists as torture and said he warned in a secret memo at the height of the "war on terror" that they breached the US's own war crimes laws.

Philip Zelikow, who was the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's most senior official, told the Guardian that he now regards what officials euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation", such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding, as torture – although he did not use that word at the time and is reluctant to use it now."