This might have made the government a bit nervous, and they thought it's time to teach them a lesson and nip this in the bud.

It's not a good time. Since early July there's been a real wave of arrests and harassment, and acts of repugnance. Being a dissident in Cuba is an incredibly precarious life.

The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted.

A six-week regime of sleep deprivation, forced exercises, stress positions, white noise, and sexual humiliation amounts to acts that were specifically intended to cause severe physical pain and suffering and severe mental pain and suffering. That's the legal definition of torture.

European governments have little interest in revealing these (CIA) activities that are covert.

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.