Obama Must Stop Point-Scoring (UK)

Barack Obama has been busy mending fences broken by the previous, careless attendant of the White House borders. But the latest sua culpa – the disclosure of Central Intelligence Agency interrogation techniques under the previous administration – has led him into having to try to repair a breach all his own. Yesterday he was at the CIA attempting to explain why he had taken away any mystery from detention by revealing the details of waterboarding and other vile ways of extracting information in the effort to prevent murderous attacks.

Waterboarding – or "near drowning" if you prefer your euphemisms less evasive – may well be unconstitutional and its ending could allow him more effectively to build relations with America's detractors.

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