Somewhere there is a line between what is and isn't torture. I don't know where that line is, but I believe that the Bush administration has allowed, or even directed, agents of our government to be on the wrong side of that line in recent years.

Your question seems to imply that all this talk about torture is a "media-generated non-event." Therefore I assume that you have a definition of torture and believe that we have not engaged in torture to any significant degree. Perhaps you could elaborate, because that position seems contrary to the evidence I've seen.