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America doesn’t do torture. Or rather, where it’s found that a relatively small but misguided number of US officials have practised torture, it doesn’t try and defend it. Because if it does, at that point, America ceases to become America at all.

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America is the country that nearly tore itself in two over the ending of segregation, and 40 years later elected a black man to the White House. America is the country that bombed Germany and Japan back into the stone age, and then helped rebuild them into two of the great powerhouse economies of the 20th century. America is the country that went to war with itself to keep men enslaved, and then placed itself at the forefront of every major progressive social change that defined the century that followed.

What America is not is a bunch of thugs with a bucket, a dirty towel and leg irons, and a misguided sense of patriotism and sadism in their hearts. America, however much her enemies may long to believe it, is not the Feinstein report.

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