"Detention operations must act as an enabler for interrogation... to provide a safe, secure and humane environment that supports the expeditious collection of intelligence," Miller wrote.
It is also important to note that some detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques attempted to provide false or misleading information about the facilitator/courier.
The mainstream discourse has accepted his premise: that the legitimacy of torture turns on its results (i.e., whether enhanced interrogation inspired detainees to provide incremental information, and whether that information has proven reliable).
They say the corporate defendants, who were hired to provide "interrogation services," are guilty of rape and other forms of sexual assault.
Because most of the attackers had been killed or had escaped, and not captured alive for interrogation, it was difficult to provide firm statistics, he said.
Because most of the attackers had been killed or had escaped and were not captured alive for interrogation, it was difficult to provide firm statistics, he said.
The original interrogation memos "were intended to provide a golden shield to commit torture and get away with it," Mr. Leahy argued, but he said questions about how the memos were developed and what role the White House played may go unanswered.
The CIA inspector general's report on "enhanced interrogation techniques," scheduled to be released today, is said to provide disturbing details about interrogations CIA officers conducted from 2002 to 2004.
SAS troops continued to provide detainees for interrogation, operating from their base in one of a row of seven large villas inside the Green Zone.
In September 2003, JPRA sent a team to Iraq to provide assistance to interrogation operations at an SMU Task Force.
Conducting periodic unannounced and announced inspections of detention facilities in order to provide continued oversight of interrogation and detention operations.
