Romney and torture

When Obama became President, one of his first acts was to limit interrogators to those methods approved in the Army Field Manual.  We no longer torture people.  

Here’s what Romney said in Charleston, South Carolina, last December.  “We’ll use enhanced interrogation techniques which go beyond those that are in the military handbook right now.”  (Romney was quoted in an article by Charles Savage in the New York Times, September 28, p. 12.)

Enhanced interrogation?  This is what the Bush administration approved:  prolonged sleep deprivation, forced stress positions while naked in a cold room, locking people inside a small box, and, of course, waterboarding.  That is not enhanced interrogation.  That is torture.  That my government ever approved those methods makes me ashamed.  That a presidential candidate would even suggest bringing them back is obscene.