The memo referenced three works that reviewed the available literature on this topic; one of these works was a chapter I co-authored in a Wilderness Medicine textbook. The CIA did not use techniques or protocols from any of these references. Rather, they sought rationale of limiting exposure to prevent medical harm. In fact, the "near-lethal limits" quoted in the memo are very conservative and are similar to conditions I regularly use in ethically approved studies in my university laboratory, which never place volunteers in any medical danger. I certainly am offended by actions that I consider real torture, such as waterboarding -- conducted in North America -- and more grievous actions such as electric shocks and crushing testicles in other countries. Given the fact that I regularly e...
... by birth, fearing possible detention and torture should he leave this sanctuary, all the while want..., including numerous incidents of waterboarding, a practice that many hold to be torture. [3] The ...
... relates many haunting stories of torture. She describes slapping, shackling, forced standin..., and the much-discussed practice of waterboarding. (After reading the book, I watched a short video ...
S. Justice Department lawyers showed "poor judgment" but did not commit professional misconduct when they authorized CIA interrogators to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics at the height of the U.S. war on terrorism, an internal review released Friday found. MARJAH, Afghanistan -- After a fierce gunfight, U.S. marines seized a compound that appears to have been a Taliban headquarters -- complete with photos of fighters posing with their weapons, dozens of Taliban-issued ID cards and graduation diplomas from a training camp in Pakistan. [Jim Allen] was among eight U.S. missionaries freed Wednesday after three weeks in custody in Haiti. Two were left behind in jail. The 10 missionaries were charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 Haitian children to the Dominican Republic o...
... and other tactics that he called torture, but he left open the question of whether anyone w...
...Information Obtained or Derived from. Torture or Cruel, Inhumane or. Degrading Treatment 149-153... interrogation methods such as waterboarding had been approved by the former US administration ...
[Michael McConnell]'s statement echoed that of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who told the Senate Judiciary Committee last week that in deciding whether waterboarding is legal, the administration has to weigh "the heinousness of doing it, the cruelty of doing it balanced against the value ... of what information you might get." Both men are wrong, as any federal court that considered waterboarding would be likely to rule. The legality of abusive treatment depends on "the circumstances" only if the treatment falls short of torture, which is illegal in all instances. Waterboarding is, and always has been, torture.
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... how CIA agents were authorized to torture detainees between 2002 and 2005 using a variety of... drowning through the infamous "waterboarding" technique. As part of this release, President Bar...
Did they work? Torture's defenders, including the wannabe tough guys who write Fox's 24, insist that the rough stuff gets results. "It was like flipping a switch," said [John Kiriakou] about Abu Zubaida's response to being waterboarded. But the al-Qaida operative's confessions -- descriptions of fantastic plots from a man whom journalist Ron Suskind has reported was mentally ill -- probably didn't give the CIA any actionable intelligence. Yes, the Gestapo did torture people for intelligence, especially in its later years. But this reflected not torture's efficacy but the loss of many seasoned professionals to the Second World War, increasingly desperate competition for intelligence among Gestapo units and an influx of less disciplined younger members. (Why do serious, tedious police wo...
... terrorists, al-Qaida will set up "waterboarding-resistance camps" across the world. Be that as it ...
... by birth, fearing possible detention and torture should he leave this sanctuary, all the while want..., including numerous incidents of waterboarding, a practice that many hold to be torture. [3] The ...
In January 2002, they handed suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters over to U.S. forces despite knowing that the Pentagon was refusing to convene "status determination tribunals." Such tribunals are required under the Third Geneva Convention to investigate whether individuals captured during an "international armed conflict" are prisoners of war. According to the Washington Post, "Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made about whether they should be detained or for how long." Worse yet, the Post reports that "CIA interrogators in the overseas sites are permitted to use the CIA's approved Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, some of which are prohibited by the UN convention (on torture) and...
...These techniques include waterboarding, whereby a prisoner is made to believe that he is ...
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