Gulfstream: 5 May 2004

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact

Seymour Hersh’s “Torture at Abu Ghraib.” The guards seem to be putting a lot of blame on M.I. Mark Bowden, in an article in The Atlantic wrote that “coercion should be banned but also quietly practiced” because “if you can save lives—if people are plotting mass murder and you have a chance of preventing it—it’s hard to argue against whatever methods work.” I wonder if he still thinks this. (interview)