I am reserving my deepest revulsion for those who keep saying things like “what would you have us do, give them a Big Mac?” Because, well, yes, I would if it would get me the information I needed.

This, friends, is a “tell”. If you’re genuinely devoted to the idea of getting information that will protect other Americans to the point that you would do “whatever it takes”, that would INCLUDE being “nice” to the detainees if that was what got information. And we’ve got a substantial quantity of evidence that it was.

If the idea of giving a detainee a Coke bothers you more than the idea of chaining him to a concrete floor and letting him die of hypothermia, you’re not nearly as interested in getting information as you are in getting revenge.