The "Torture" Of Cop Impersonators

By The Daily Dish

Why can the press simply refer to waterboarding and the mere threat of violence as torture when criminals do it, but when the government does it, it becomes "harsh techniques that critics call torture"?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/05/the-torture-of-cop-impersonators/216997/