Re: Hardly . . .
Consider the source.
U.K. making statements regarding U.S. policy and practices. The word "torture" was chosen as a media ploy. Technically, keeping a suspect isolated from his attorney for the legal amount of time prior to charging (not being there, I have no idea what it might be [24-48 hours?]) is torture, but acceptable police policy -- even in the oh, so saintly U.K.
Real combat tactics, while obviously required, will always fall to bleeding-heart media hype,
Dan