By Jon Henley | Late last year, the writer, polemicist and fierce proponent of the US-led invasion of Iraq Christopher Hitchens attempted, in a piece for the online magazine Slate, to draw a distinction between what he called techniques of “extreme interrogation” and “outright torture”. From this, his foes inferred that since it was Hitchens’ … Continue reading Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens