Greg Sargent looks at a new NYT poll on torture:
The relevant numbers are buried in the poll’s internals [pdf]: Seventy one percent think waterboarding is torture, while only 26% say it isn’t. Intriguingly, the paper’s article about the poll doesn’t mention this finding, perhaps because that might have necessitated using the word “torture.”
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/americans-believe-waterboarding-is-torture/202575/
