Torture is Always Wrong

by Michael Sean Winters

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September 8, 2011

Over at the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Forum, they have a fine essay by Father Thomas R. von Behren, CSV, that looks at one of the uglier consquences of 9/11, America's resort to torture and why that decision was wrong, no matter what Dick Cheney says.

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