Torture doesn't work.

• Author: Kadier, Dimitri
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

"Obama Perfects Impunity" was powerful (by Alfred McCoy, November issue).The information from the memoirs of one man of conscience in the FBI counterbalances all the misinformation of the CIA and Dick Cheney.

If The Progressive hadn't published this article, how would the general public find out the truth?

But even if torture brought information, it is still a morally dubious approach. What we say the government can do to others, the government will eventually...