People who served there described a range of interrogation tactics, including interrogators' breaking tables as a show of force.
At 269 pages, the full report is as detailed as it is grim, concluding that American psychologists collaborated extensively with the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the CIA to develop a range of interrogation methods used in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay.
Mr. Bybee's memo provided sweeping legal authority for a wide range of interrogation techniques to be used on Qaeda operatives.
It had already been known that Mr. Rumsfeld, in December 2002 and April 2003, approved a narrower range of interrogation procedures than his subordinates had sought.
Citing the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the memorandum argued that a broad range of interrogation techniques, among them forced standing, hooding, subjection to loud noises and deprivation of sleep, food and drink, might be inhumane but did not constitute torture unless they resulted in "prolonged mental harm".
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday sharply criticized the Obama administration's decision to investigate the abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency as he delivered a forceful defense of the full range of interrogation techniques used by intelligence officers.
Inquisitors like Bernard Gui (who appears in Umberto Eco's novel "The Name of the Rose") and Nicholas Eymerich created manuals that outlined model sermons, methods of interrogation and a range of punishments, from wearing a yellow cross to death.
In this report, we have developed and utilized the e-Fungi object-oriented data warehouse [26], which contains data from 36 species of fungi and oomycetes and deploys a range of querying tools to allow interrogation of a significant amount of genome data in unparalleled detail.
This paper suggests that the U.S. military transformed ordinary soldiers into the cruel and ruthless guards at Abu Ghraib through the use of basic recruitment and training strategies, general authorizations for increased aggression and violence after 9/11, specific authorizations for more aggressive interrogations, a range of pressures and protections, and the dehumanization of prisoners.
The spokesperson told the Guardian: "Prison staff take the use of any illicit substances in prison extremely seriously and use a range of robust measures to find them, including interrogation, intelligence, searches, specially trained dogs and random drug tests.
Mr Johani remains in prison.Waleed Abualkhair, a young Jeddah activist, has faced a range of intimidation tactics: trumped-up court cases; repeated interrogation; accusations of apostasy; a travel ban.
