Woodward's got an interview in Pravda with military judge Susan Crawford. She says:

"We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani," said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. "His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for prosecution.

But the headline on the main page reads:

Detainee Faced 'Abusive' Methods [torture], Official Says

Only on the inside pages can WaPo use the word (though, granted, they didn't bury the story on A16):

Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official
Trial Overseer Cites 'Abusive' Methods Against 9/11 Suspect

AP uses "torture" in the headline

Pentagon official says 9/11 suspect was tortured

but resorts to euphemism in the text:

His Pentagon-appointed attorney, Army Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, suggested at the time that his client's harsh interrogation, authorized by the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, could have influenced the decision.

Reuters uses the term in both headline and lead, without the built-in rationalization of "9/11":

U.S. official says Guantanamo detainee tortured: report
The Pentagon official overseeing the tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national

I don't see why "torture" should be so hard for the Village to say, do you?

Say what you like about Bush, he brought moral clarity to at least one question: Do we torture? And anyone honest now knows that the answer is yes, and that torture is a matter of policy. Bush ripped off the veil.

Can American sustain the imperial project without torture? I'd say no. So, let's drop it. We can't afford the empire anyhow, and we need the money for other things.

UPDATE Izvestia uses the word on the main page, the story, and the lead. Good:

Detainee Was Tortured, a Bush Official Confirms

Detainee Was Tortured, a Bush Official Confirms

The senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration’s system for prosecuting detainees said in a published interview that she had concluded that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee who has sometimes been described as “the 20th hijacker” in the 2001 terrorist attacks.