First, they will know that their president believes that those losses are a small price to pay for stopping interrogations and making foreign peoples like us more.
He has banned the harsh techniques that the International Committee of the Red Cross called torture from U.S. interrogation policy and made clear that he believes living up to American values is an essential source of the nation's power.
No doubt their release would help drive home the cruelty of stress positions, mock executions, hooding, and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques used against detainees and make it harder for officials to assert that the improper conduct was aberrational rather than the predictable result of policies set at high levels.
Aimed at deterring false confessions, and strengthening police and prosecutorial credibility and integrity, the plan will use private money from the Police Foundation to help install video capability in every police precinct and make videotaped interrogations standard procedure.
They also accused Occidental of retaliating against whistle-blowers, conducting biased investigations with interrogations that traumatized victims and making "woefully inadequate" education and prevention efforts.
When she talks of Epstein, who helps the German policemen with their interrogations and has made the yellow star on his jacket look "like a chrysanthemum," a single looming shadow rises behind her.
Some Obama supporters have urged him to use the occasion to announce that part of a 6,000-page Senate study of the C.I.A.'s former interrogation program will be declassified and made public.
But when the findings, conclusions, and executive summary of the Senate's damning study of the CIA Rendition, Detention, Interrogation program was finally declassified and made public late last year, there were their names, plain as black ink on white paper, in the report's "Appendix 2: CIA Detainees from 2002-2008".
The coercion present in any police interrogation are magnified for children, whose susceptibility to suggestion, deference to authority, and simple lack of understanding about what is at stake in a police interrogation and investigation all make children more vulnerable to falsely confessing to crimes they did not in fact commit.
They said that the CIA and other intelligence agencies were reluctant to share information, and that the Bush administration's focus on detention and interrogation made preparation of viable prosecutions a far lower priority.
