Sugar?

Stunning, memorable, horrifying and sickly hilarious. "The tortured lives of interrogators."

My friend Eb is right--this piece is wall-to-wall quotable quotes.

The best place to go to unwind, Sheriff said, was the municipal garbage dump. After work, he'd set up a beach chair on top of the landfill, under the Israeli sun.

Now Sheriff was high up on the dump, safe from vindictive prisoners, boiling water on a portable gas burner to make some tea. "Sugar?" he offered. Sheriff stretched, relaxed. "I've got a clean conscience because I rarely use it."

But Sheriff's got nothing on the American profiled in the story--the one who was encouraged by his superiors, IN OUR GOVERNMENT, to torture more or less at random. Cut a guy's fingers off because he stole a can of benzene? Why the hell not? That's just "being creative."