Critics will no doubt say I am accusing the Bush administration of being Hitler. I'm not. There is no comparison
between the political system in Germany in 1937 and the U.S. in 2007. What I am reporting is a simple empirical fact:
the interrogation methods approved and defended by this president are not new. Many have been used in the past.
The very phrase used by the president to describe torture-that-isn't-somehow-torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques"
- is a term originally coined by the Nazis. The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948
as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death.
