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Read the New York Times investigative piece on enhanced interrogation techniques.
"Never in history had the United States authorized such tactics. While President Bush and C.I.A. officials would later insist that the harsh measures produced crucial intelligence, many veteran interrogators, psychologists and other experts say that less coercive methods are equally or more effective.
With virtually no experience in interrogations, the C.I.A. had constructed its program in a few harried months by consulting Egyptian and Saudi intelligence officials and copying Soviet interrogation methods long used in training American servicemen to withstand capture. The agency officers questioning prisoners constantly sought advice from lawyers thousands of miles away."
The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan calls it like it is: "We have war criminals in the White House."
From CNN: "It appears that under Attorney General Gonzales they reversed themselves and reinstated a secret regime by, in essence, reinterpreting the law in secret," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont.
Reinterpreted. The law. In secret.
Labels: Andrew Sullivan, cia, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, George W. Bush, Patrick Leahy, Torture
