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Brave new words.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)

American Prospect, The,  July, 2004  

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TORTURE Not, according to a Pentagon memo, "the infliction of pain or suffering per se." It's got to be severe. What's more, your"good faith belief" that you are inflicting non-severe pain "need not be a reasonable one" to get you off the hook. Torture, then, means something worse than what U.S. forces could inflict.

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