Yeah, you absolutely never order someone to do something illegal. Instead, you simply give your people some disavowable waterboarding equipment, and a bunch o

Yeah, you absolutely never order someone to do something illegal. Instead, you simply give your people some disavowable waterboarding equipment, and a bunch of evil prisoners, and then demand results, while making sure there is no oversight. Alternatively you ship them to a country that is more than happy to openly and gleefully torture. But you never simply order your troops to torture. That would be politically stupid.