A LOT GOING ON AT BALKINIZATION. “Bin Laden’s Greatest Legacy: The Surveillance State“; Deborah Pearlstein points out that even the merely strategic calculus on interrogation methods involves a lot more than just “Did we get a truthful answer to the question we happened to be asking this time?” (last paragraph); more on the role of torture in finding Bin Laden, with a bright glittering array of Newspeak euphemisms (second paragraph).