I recently read Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives by Jose A Rodriguez, Jr and Bill Harlow, and highly recommend it to all readers interested in the CIA in general, and specifically in the question "Are EITs torture, or not?" Jose Rodriguez became the Chief of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center following 9/11, and he presents a compelling account of how the EITs came to be, how they were developed, how they were vetted and approved by the Justice Department, and most importently, how effective they really were. He also relates his own experiences with the CIA prior to 9/11, mostly in Latin American locations. This book is very well written, and it convinced me that those Hard Measures were necessary and effective, and did not constitute torture. I believe everyone should read this book before they make up their own mind on this topic.