A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Outsourcing Torture

Nat Hentoff points our attention to a recently published New Yorker piece detailing the history of the practice of “extraordinary renditions” — i.e. sending suspects abroad to countries that are less than scrupulous about the use of torture.

The New Yorker piece is here.

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