Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'm really not concerned with how we treat imprisoned terrorists. As long as it's not happening within the 48 and we're extracting needed information, the methods used aren't any of my business. It's not like they play by the rules, so why should we? If torturing these people prevents another attack like 9/11, I'm perfectly okay with torturing the fuck out of 'em. I just don't need to hear about it....
This is all false justification. Torture never yields anything the torturer already doesn't know. At best it gets confirmation. At worst it gets useless lies proffered up to stop the torture.
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aren't we supposed to be better than the terrorist scum?