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at 12.39.37 AM  In 528 pages of grisly detail released just last
week, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s long-
awaited “Torture Report” details how the C.I.A. handled
‘criminals’ captured in the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks on
America. Water boarding, rectal feeding, psychological trauma,
and worst of all, detention of innocent people. We must ask
ourselves: generally our justice system purports to see
suspected criminals as innocent until proven guilty; is it
acceptable to reverse this standard on an issue of national
defense? Additionally, the US regularly criti