Torturing for all the Right Reasons – chriscommons.blogspot.com 07/10/2009 Alicia Shepard, Ombudsman for National Public Radio, has continually been appearing on NPR programming to defend NPR’s policy of not referring to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” as torture. There has been an interesting development since I wrote about this issue last week that takes Shepard’s defense from sad, to ridiculous.

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