Benjamin, "Torture Needs to Be Illegal"

Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin responded to the debate on the use of torture following the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program.  In a piece for Politico Magazine on December 22, 2014,  Benjamin asserted, "...it is not just that US hypocrisy has been on display in the last week, undermining this broad-based effort. More damagingly, we have not persuaded partners around the world that this episode was an aberration borne of extreme circumstances that is now in our past. To do that, the United States must quickly legislate clear prohibitions on the “enhanced interrogation techniques” that have caused so much controversy." 

Read the full op-ed.