I think there's another problem. Arab intelligence services tend to be brutal, so I'm not surprised that _they_ thought that their course of action was a good idea, but was "let's torture this Islamic-fundamentalist blogger into infiltrating al-Qaida for us" really a course of action that raised _no_ moral or common-sense alarm bells at the CIA?

And where do I go to get my money back? I would rather be killed by a suicide bomber than defended by torturers. (I say this as a conservative -- and as someone who believes in objective right and wrong.)