The ACLU's National Security Project now hosts a new blog, The Torture Report, that will post a new leaked and/or declassified torture document every day for the rest of the month.
But it isn't all depressing. One document shows that even high-ranking military officials, such as Navy general counsel Alberto Mora, refused to participate in the torture regime. As Mora wrote to defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2004:
Even if one wanted to authorize the U.S. military to conduct coercive interrogations, as was the case in Guantanamo, how could one do so without profoundly altering its core values and character? Societal education and military training inculcated in our soldiers American values adverse to mistreatment. Would we now have the military abandon these values altogether?
Related: Torture Techniques Allegedly Used by the U.S. Government
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