>Wasn't this "torture" technique used to foil a recent bombing plot of airliners from Europe?
There is really no need for the quotation marks. Just because the U.S. government decides to call torture by a different name doesn't mean we have to do the same.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)