They argued that the president's inherent wartime authority effectively legalized torture short of that which would cause massive organ failure, impairment of bodily function or death.
The August opinion defined torture as pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death".
The memo concluded that torture amounts to more than inflicting moderate or fleeting pain, and "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death".
It was Yoo's legal advice that for an act to be torture it would have to cause pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death".
The memo concluded that a coercive procedure could not be considered torture unless it caused pain equivalent to that accompanying "serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death".
To qualify, the document said, mistreatment had to inflict pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death".
This can happen directly through impairment of bodily functions arising from diabetes complications, including loss of vision, amputations, or mobility limitations (16, 19); workplace discrimination encountered by employees with diabetes may also play a role (20).
Tests showed I had no brain damage or any loss of bodily function.
Loss of bodily function for Carl.
The dreams, meanwhile, apparently career around drinking, simian rutting and loss of bodily function, preferably simultaneously.
Think of the worst kind of bodily function possible.
