Molly Ivins: I can't get over this feeling of unreality, that I am actually sitting here writing about our country having a gulag of secret prisons in which it tortures people. I have loved America all my life, even though I have often disagreed with the government. But this seems to me so preposterous, so monstrous. Torture does not work. It is not productive. It does not yield important, timely information. That is in the movies. This is reality.

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