The techniques described in detail by Fred Thompson - another person who avoided the word "torture" - are exactly the torture techniques authorized by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. I'm not sure whether avoiding the t-word is deliberate. I'm just as unsure whether either Bush or Thompson got the irony.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/09/coercive-interrogation-watch/212126/
