The minutes tell of a discussion of interrogation techniques, and the official saying that the legal statutes were vague.
The White House had previously argued that any discussion of CIA interrogation methods would only aid the enemy.
"But hypotheticals are different from real life, and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical". "Any discussion of coercive interrogation techniques necessarily involves a discussion of and a choice among bad alternatives," he said.
In 2008, amidst a nationwide discussion of "enhanced interrogation techniques, Hitchens decided to subject himself to a waterboarding treatment to see if it was truly a form of torture.
WARNING: discussions of torture and interrogation may be upsetting to some viewers.
There has been so much discussion of this "enhanced interrogation technique" that it's hard to imagine anyone with access to the Internet, a newspaper, a radio, a TV or a carrier pigeon doesn't know about it.
Summary of Interrogation of General Von Falkenhorst.
"Hour after hour of interrogation followed.
The process of interrogation became ever more insistent.
