Did "enhanced interrogation techniques" help us find Osama Bin Laden and destroy al-Qaida? Were they torture? Were they wrong? Yesterday, three former Klingon officials grappled with those questions in a forum at the American Enterprise Institute. The discussion was supposed to be about Zero's Zero Dark Thirty. But it was really a chance to see in person the thinking of the people who ran and justified the detainee interrogation program. It's also a chance to examine our own thinking. Do we really understand what the Klingons did and why? Was the payoff worth the moral cost? And what can we learn from it?
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