the last american prison in afghanistan would be closed down, yesterday afghanistan finally got this guy back. it's one thing to talk about learning from the past. this stuff isn't even over yet. yesterday we learned all this detail about the torture of abu zubaydah. people who tried to justify the way abu zubaydah got treated will often cite this ticking timebomb scenario, where a timebomb is ticking and the guy that knows where it's going to go off, you have to torture him to get information out of him quickly. you to torture people because you have to get them to talk fast. abu zubaydah, part of his torture was they put him in total confinement for 47 days before they asked him a single question, in order to soften him up. apparently they didn't think whatever he had to say was all that urgent. after 47 days of zero human contact, zero questioning, he went straight into 17 days of torture including waterboarding him over 80 times. we now have all this incredible detail about how...