Original sentence: He wrote the 2010 New York Times bestselling book, Courting Disaster in which he argues that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA were vital to thwarting numerous terror attacks against the US since the September 11 attacks,.are not torture by any reasonable legal or moral standard and "were not only effective, but lawful and morally just"
Edited sentence: He wrote the 2010 New York Times bestselling book, Courting Disaster in which he argues that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the US government, which the Obama administration has categorized as torture, were vital to thwarting numerous terror attacks against the US since the September 11 attacks