As the seventh season of 24 reaches its climax in the UK, a UK Parliamentary inquiry and a media witch-hunt into the part played by British intelligence in the US rendition program is in full swing. Why mention these things in the same sentence? Well it doesn't take a rocket scientist to grasp that while the latest season of 24's action focuses on a plot at the heart of the US Government, the story's subtext -- if Obama would allow us to twist the producers' arms, they would surely confirm it -- is: the morality of torture.
