Got a taste for irony? How about this bad boy?

Members of a violent gang from Queens that allegedly stole millions of dollars worth of cocaine from drug dealers are facing criminal charges in federal court that include kidnapping and torture, officials said yesterday.

It's been a few days since we talk about torture, so I thought I'd post this Foreign Policy video interview with Jack Clayton, a former FBI agent who interviewed Al Qaeda suspects in the 1990s. He's not a big fan of waterboarding, and he's skeptical of ticking time-bomb scenarios.

Jonah Goldberg makes an interesting case that we shouldn't get hung up on waterboarding, when the evidence indicates that U.S. authorities have practiced it on terror suspects for a grand total of less than five minutes.

Goldberg argues that waterboarding was effective, but also seems to acknowledge that it is torture, saying: "I don’t like waterboarding, and I hope we never use it again. I have respect for those who believe it should be banned in all circumstances."

A reader sends me a private message:

Your views of waterboarding show main-street America the reason why you Liberal Democrats are weak on National Defense. Waterboarding wasn't illegal at the time it was being used. It was extremely valuable in obtaining actionable intelligence. Intelligence that saves American lifes. And, as a result of its effectiveness, I say let the technique continue. We are at WAR. Were at war with forces that aren't constrained by any rules or regulations. They kill, that's it.

Super Tuesday -- and let's let that be the last time I use that phrase until 2012 -- obscured, to some extent, the White House admission that, as we all knew, American forces had used waterboarding on suspected terrorists. And that the White House reserves the right to use it again, if it deems necessary.