"People who were conducting the interrogations, understanding that they were legal, should be immune".
No intelligence officers who conducted the interrogations, nor anyone higher up the chain of command, have been charged.
Libyan officials at first denied the accusations, but later arrested senior army officers who conducted the interrogations and charged them with torture, which diplomats here say is routine in the prison system.
A revised policy took effect on Oct. 12 that dropped the listing of the approaches needing the general's approval, although the Army intelligence brigade that actually conducted the interrogations produced a chart that kept the old listings, and posted it as a guide.
The memos argued that the methods were not "cruel, inhuman or degrading" under international law and highlighted safeguards, such as conducting the interrogations under the supervision of a physician or psychologist with the authority to stop it.
The police detective conducting the interrogations is one of the few people of color in the cast.
Speaking to the Guardian by telephone, Liashko said he conducted the interrogation because he wanted to find out what the motivations and ideas of Kakizdyanov were.
Capturing one of the alien troops and conducting the interrogation reveals vague information about another type of alien called the Outsiders, artificially-created crystalline beings encountered aboard UFOs, that appear to serve as pilots and navigators.
WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who will conduct the inquiry into the brutal interrogations of terror detainees faces formidable legal hurdles and complex political dynamics that make prosecutions far from certain.
Zawahiri later testified in a case brought by former prisoners against the intelligence unit that conducted the prison interrogations.
