You have to wonder on the logic of those who no matter what information or what credible source is place before them will deny culpability or insist that they've been done wrong.

If we didn't torture, then (as Thomas Ricks puts it), you must know something that the International Red Cross doesn't know. Red Cross on US Torture


The best passage of Ricks' post reads as follows:

This makes me think more than ever that we need a truth and reconciliation commission -- not to punish the low-level guys who inflicted torture, but to set the record straight on who thought it was a good idea to make the use of torture U.S. national policy. Those are the people who dragged this country's name through the mud, and who also didn't understand that we can't win a war for our values by undermining them.