Torture

This NYT piece just has to be read.

And there's a follow-up. Jim Henley has a thought Glenn Reynolds might find edifying:

It’s as if the military too were subject to well-known laws that apply to bureaucracies like - the military! and needed external vigilance in the form of a free press to keep it accountable.

UPDATE: An Insta-reader e-mails, and Instapundit prints without criticism, this jaw-dropping suggestion:

Does [sic] the latest NYT articles on deaths-in-custody in Afghanistan smack of diversion to take the heat off Newsweek?

To be more accurate, Reynolds prints this without criticism of the e-mailer. He has plenty for the press, as he's "seen other examples of this phenomenon [presumably reporting on prisoners being tortured to death in order to divert attention from the Newsweek scandal] in quite a few outlets."