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See Kevin Drum on why this is not Watergate: a well of political support remains for Bush's terror policies, "enhanced interrogation" among them.
A TomDispatch regular, he is the author of Torture & Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation, among other works.
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A. B. Krongard, who was the executive director of the C.I.A. from 2001 to 2004, said that the agency turned to "everyone we could, including our friends in Arab cultures," for interrogation advice, among them those in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, all of which the State Department regularly criticizes for human-rights abuses.
Citing the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the memorandum argued that a broad range of interrogation techniques, among them forced standing, hooding, subjection to loud noises and deprivation of sleep, food and drink, might be inhumane but did not constitute torture unless they resulted in "prolonged mental harm".
Shane used "brutality," "coercive interrogation methods" and "the torture question," among other phrases, instead of flatly labeling US interrogation techniques as torture.
What renders a surgeon's work different and humane, however, is not just the individual doctor's desire to do the right thing by his or her patients (though I seriously wonder if Jay Bybee thought he was doing the right thing by his fellow Americans when he listed the 10 acceptable interrogation techniques, waterboarding among them).
Drafted into the US army in 1942, Kreisler was trained in intelligence work and helped as an interpreter in the interrogation of Nazi prisoners, among them Hermann Goering.
But among the interrogation procedures that Mr. Rumsfeld did approve was the removal of prisoners' clothing, although he rescinded permission for this and some other techniques in January 2003.
Explaining why his vote was consistent with his previous positions on interrogation methods, Mr. McCain among other things cited the Military Commissions Act, which Congress adopted in 2006 with his support.
Mr. Ives lays out the mechanics and the consequences of Spinoza's interrogation in a debate among van Valkenburgh; the city's chief rabbi, Saul Levi Mortera Richard Eastonn), Spinoza's teacher and mentor; and Gaspar Rodrigues Ben Israel (Fyvush Finkel), a "parnas" of the temple congregation, or member of the committee that will pass judgment on the case.
He was called before the lawmakers for an unusual interrogation session in March, challenging among other things his handling of the economy.
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