The investigations over the tapes frustrate some C.I.A. veterans, who say they believe that the agency is being unfairly blamed for policies of coercive interrogation approved at the top of the Bush administration and by some Congressional leaders.
The information sheet for the main study which had been subject to careful design, consisted of neutral, non-coercive language and had been approved by the local research ethics committee (LREC).
Rumsfeld is alleged to have personally approved of the introduction of a variety of coercive interrogation methods including stress techniques such as forced standing and shackling in painful positions.
CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorized by CIA Headquarters.
14) CIA detainees were subjected to coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved by the Department of Justice or had not been authorised by CIA headquarters.
Republicans had hoped that the Senate debate would highlight what they say is the coercive nature of Mr. Obama's health care overhaul, approved by Congress in 2010 without any Republican votes.
While some women were ready to take the tests and easily approved the exercise, others were not and felt the process was coercive.
But the civil lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, calls the tactics "coercive" and "deceptive" and says the program "has not been approved by any California court or prosecutor".
These opinions are somewhat more negative than those reported by Jarrett et al. [ 23] in their review of forced medication, which concluded that, with hindsight, many patients approved the use of forced medication, despite often negative experiences during the coercive episode.
Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "Approved illegal interrogation methods and closely followed the interrogation of Mohamed al-Qahtani, who was subjected to a six-week regime of coercive interrogation at Guantanamo that cumulatively appears to have amounted to torture".
Legislation that was approved this year by the House and the Senate would have imposed further on C.I.A. interrogations, by requiring that they conform to rules spelled out in the Army handbook for military interrogations that bans coercive procedures.
