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Over on Balkinization, Marty Lederman offers an important analysis of the ineffective, illegal brutality that our cowardly, draft-dodging "leaders" have authorized in recent years.

UPDATE: More from Lederman:

One of the more interesting, and disheartening, things about the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani at Guantanamo in 2002-2003 -- the official log of which is examined in detail in this week's Time Magazine -- is that the military appears to have been fully aware that the techniques it was employing were unlawful. The Pentagon's efforts to provide legal justification for its activities are quite revealing.

UPDATE UPDATE: Apparently Gawker thinks that this constitutes torture:

The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music.

Now, Melissa disagrees with me, but I think Christina has pipes, man! She is very talented. Sure, it ain't really Taliban-friendly music. But the Taliban hates ALL MUSIC. So it really does not matter who sings it. All music messes with the Taliban!

In fact, I have always been a big fan of using American popular music to mess with bad people. Remember when US soldiers blasted rock at Manuel Noriega's hideout? I used to hope that they had the wit to use Van Halen's "Panama!"