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In the weeks preceeding the release of the much lauded film Zero Dark Thirty--of which everyone by now knows is about one CIA agent's single-minded mission to find Osama bin Laden--something remarkable happened. The CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a coterie of human rights journalists, activists, and artists, seemed at least in print and in picture to compose a united front against the makers of the film. Their common aim was to impress on the public that the film propagated false information regarding the efficacy of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques" (a euphemism for torture) in general, and specifically in coercing information from prisoners on the whereabouts of bin Laden.

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My Comment: This is a long but detailed post on how the U.S. government's narrative on torture has changed over the years .... but specifically in the past year. Why this change in narrative .... is it to impress a constituency on the left .... to feel good about oneself .... to validate another course of action (i.e. targeted drone strikes) .... your guess is as good as mine.