In Bush's hands that meant illegal wiretapping and needless, wanton torture.
On the one hand, he will be remembered as a bungling, blisteringly incompetent chancellor, who presided over more needless economic torture than any other individual in recent British history.
Wilful cruelty, needless indignity or sheer torture?
The needless war in Iraq, the torture, Guantanamo Bay have so tarnished our world reputation that I find it hard to believe that there are people out there who don't hate us.
The torture, you could then say, was especially needless.
The accusations include that he single-handedly prolonged the Vietnam War, worsened the torture of prisoners of war and ultimately caused countless, needless deaths with his antiwar activism 30 years ago.
Needless to say, an audience traumatised by Red Weddings, White Walkers, Pink Letters, and the torture, dismemberment, beheading, and head-exploding of their favorite characters writhed under this continued needling of their emotions.
If you are appalled by needless violence, you want it to be true that you would recoil from torture, not that you would be as free to do it as to not do it.
He is sacrificed, needless to say, and in ways that anticipate Pinter's late-career examinations of political torture.
