The reason we know that they did not violate the War Crimes Act is primarily because this was the ruling offered by the authoritative Office of Legal Counsel OLCC) in the Justice Department in memos upon which the CIA and the Administration relied in developing and implementing interrogation policies from early 2002.
If we are really interested in nation-building in Iraq and other areas that are wracked by war, "doing unto others what you would have them do unto you " is a good thing to keep in mind when implementing any interrogation policy.
Conservatives and former George W Bush Administration officials have countered the flood of criticism in part by noting that the report is the product of Senate Democrats who did not interview the CIA officials responsible for designing and implementing the interrogation programme (why those interviews didn't happen is an open question).
Their request is related to a separate ongoing lawsuit in Spokane, Washington, where the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of three former CIA detainees, is suing Jessen and Mitchell for their alleged role in creating and implementing an interrogation program that used techniques now considered to be torture.
WASHINGTON -- Two psychologists were paid $81 million by the CIA to advise on and help implement its brutal interrogation program targeting detainees in the war on terror, according to the Senate torture report summary released Tuesday.
In addition to mission support, we will expand our software and user interfaces to provide astronomers with new capabilities to access and analyze HEASARC data, and continue to work with our Virtual Observatory partners to develop and implement standards to enable improved interrogation and analysis of data regardless of wavelength regime, mission, or archive boundaries.
Several contract psychologists designed and helped to implement the C.I.A.'s program of "enhanced" interrogation techniques.
Database interrogation was implemented as follows: taxonomy—homo sapiens; database NCBInr; enzyme trypsin; fixed modification carbamidomethyl; variable modification oxidation of methionine residues; mass values monoisotopic; peptide mass tolerance 2 Da; peptide charge state 1+, 2+, and 3+.
The manner in which coercive interrogation techniques were implemented often differed sharply from Justice Department guidelines, and in some cases other interrogation techniques were used without any approval at all.
