The ever curious intersection of public policy (intelligence gathering for example) and commerce in the book launch mode.

Reviewing the thread I found a post by Tom Odom, which puts the debate in a different setting:
Eric Mueller, law professor at the University of North Carolina, cites decisions from Mississippi courts in the 1920s that found waterboarding to be torture, even in a case where it was used on a young black man charged with killing a white man. “If it was torture in Mississippi, then it's definitely torture, right?” Mueller asks?