Reply #42: There has been a successful propaganda

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effort by the Bush administration to equate torture with super patriotism...going beyond the call of duty into the "dark side" where the squeamish ACLU dare not go. The main propaganda theme of the Bush administration was that they simply had to have illegal police state powers to prevent terrorist attacks. Yet when one looks at 9/11 closely it becomes apparent that the attacks weren't at all attributable to the lack of intelligence/law enforcement powers. It is also very suspicious that the same officials who failed to follow standard procedure were leading advocates of police state tactics after 9/11.

One must ask why Bush/intelligence officials were advocates of an interrogation method that is considered unreliable. The link between the pre-9/11 conduct and the post 9/11 police state tactics is the bad faith conduct.