Last May, in President Obama‘s big speech at the National Defense University — where he tried to establish his legacy as being the president to „end“ the US‘s role in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — he did admit to the fact that the US „compromised our basic values — by using torture to interrogate our enemies.“ That admission got somewhat lost in the wider scope of what he was saying, and thus, to this day, many government officials still refuse to call the CIA‘s torture program „torture.“