…is the title of a new review article by David Cole in the New York Review of Books (Jan. 15, 2009). I highly recommend it. It reviews three books: Philippe Sands, Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (Palgrave Macmillan), Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Trial of Donal Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book (NY: New Press), and Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh, Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (NY: Columbia University Press). As Cole writes, “America’s experiment with torture presents the Obama administration with one of its most difficult challenges: how should the nation account for the abuses that have occurred in the past, what are the appropriate remedies, and how can we ensure that such abuses not happen again?” (p.20).