The only torture I see here,

is that being done to the language. "Torture" comes from the same root as "tortion" meaning "twisting."
The liberals and the media seem to want to make anything that gets someone to talk be considered torture. Shortly after the torture claims were first made, the History Channel showed a documentary about how interrogators get people to talk. They worked, and none of them caused physical pain or injury. Mostly, they just wore down the subject's (they used volunteers) determination not to talk, using various stress techniques such as yelling, isolation, lack of sleep, discomfort not amounting to pain or suffering.

Besides this insistence that the administration wants to torture people, a lie, the thing that seems dishonest, is the assumption that we would be doing this to innocent people. The subtext of every complaint is that this somehow violates our rights, as if the government were listening to anybody's calls, picking up ordinary citizens, etc. It all assumes that the President doesn't respect the law or want to comply with it. I don't see any basic for that, except pure bias and conditioning from our media, who are pretty regularly torturing the truth.