A23 Shift in Rules of Interrogation The Pentagon has approved a new policy directive governing interrogations by the military, a decision that in turn will allow the Army to issue new field regulations intended to tighten controls over interrogations, defense officials said.
As a civil rights lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, Taylor has been counsel in major cases challenging "stop and frisk" policies, deceptive police interrogations, broken indigent defense systems, and degrading jail and prison conditions.
I saw this effect in a video of an interrogation that an Iowa defense attorney sent me.
Decided that the best way to embarrass Arabs and make them talk was to have them walk around nude?" In letters and e-mails to family members, Frederick repeatedly noted that the military-intelligence teams, which included C.I.A. officers and linguists and interrogation specialists from private defense contractors, were the dominant force inside Abu Ghraib.
The lawyers said that Mr. Lindh, the American-born Taliban soldier, made the statements in December, shortly after his capture in Afghanistan, and that an initial summary of the interrogations provided to the defense team showed that Mr. Lindh had also said he "did not agree" with the Sept. 11 attacks.
It has been known for some time that Mr. Haynes played a role in recommending that Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was then the defense secretary, approve interrogation techniques beyond what military interrogators were normally authorized to use, which Mr. Rumsfeld did in December 2002.
The 2002 Justice Department interrogation opinion laid out some defenses interrogators might use against criminal accusations of torture.
Since leaving office in January, Cheney has mounted a vigorous public defense of the interrogation practices.
The judge in the case, John F. Keenan, has already indicated that he expected a defense challenge on interrogation matters.
Mr. Cheney's defense of brutal interrogation techniques like waterboarding still resonates for many within his party.
The resolution also criticized Rice's legal defense of "enhanced interrogation techniques" like waterboarding.
