Today's New York Times tells the story of how torture became acceptable to the Bush Administration.

In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Look at Past Use

WASHINGTON — The program began with Central Intelligence Agency leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist interrogations without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training. How could that be torture?

In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time officially embraced the brutal methods of interrogation it had always condemned.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22detain.html