President Obama invoked Winston Churchill last night as an example of a leader who refused to resort to torture no matter the threat. Obama said he “was struck by an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture,’ when the entire British — all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat.” Ben Smith says it’s not so clear cut:

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