A friendly reminder to the media

Committing torture is not a debatable policy decision; it is a heinous offense for which those responsible in the government should be fully prosecuted as the pathological criminals they are. Discussing it as though it was just another Washington issue doesn't make you sound rational; it makes you sound void of conscience and decency.

As the Atlantic notes:

The phrase 'Verschärfte Vernehmung' is German for "enhanced interrogation". Other translations include "intensified interrogation" or "sharpened interrogation". It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court. The methods ... are indistinguishable from those described as "enhanced interrogation techniques" by the president.