The United States tortures??! Who would'a thunk? Pretty foul business anyway you look at it. Cruel, ineffective and frankly well beneath any nation or it's peoples who strive (hopefully) for the higher standard. If it ever comes to trial or hearings, at least, the defense will be the same as it was at the end of WWII at Nuremberg. "Orders are orders..." etc etc. But those were Nazis, lower than low, scum and filth. Leaves a difficult and very typical human dilemma. Stand up, disobey orders, and face courtmarshal, get fired, imprisoned or, in time of war, disobeying an order can get you shot. Lots of wiggling coming up on this one.