Reigniting the debate on "torture"

The release of the partisan, lameduck Senate report on CIA interrogation has fanned the smoldering embers of the "torture" debate. So often, this goes awry at the outset by asking the wrong questions. Here are two good discussions that draw necessary distinctions:

http://parablemania.ektopos.com/archives/2004/12/ethics_of_tortu.html

https://www.uta.edu/philosophy/faculty/burgess-jackson/The%20Logic%20of%20Torture%20(Wall%20Street%20Journal,%20Version%202).pdf