Flutterby™! : CIA & torture

Newsweek: The CIA Doesn’t Want You to Know How Badly It Botched Torture:

"Some in the agency might not have wanted him released because so much of his case was based on erroneous assessments, that to have released him would have shown the operation to have been a house of cards, like so much of the war on terrorism," he told Harper's magazine.

So, yeah, torture, innocent people being detained because to release them would be to reveal incompetence.

These are the people informing and guiding our foreign policy.