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Filled with moving accounts of detentions and interrogations, "Out of Status" is long on empathy but frustratingly short on specifics.
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For six years, Daniel Jones was the chief investigator for the Senate intelligence committee's inquiry into CIA detentions and interrogations carried out in the post-9/11 Bush era.
Nor has there been a systematic effort to analyze the successes and blunders of the interrogations carried out since the attacks of 2001.
The report focused solely on interrogations carried out by the military, not those conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency at its secret prisons overseas.
The three bombers had been refused access to a lawyer initially so they could have "safety interviews" – urgent interrogations carried out with the aim of protecting life and preventing serious damage to property.
How effective these rules might be is a matter of conjecture now that reports from Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo give us an idea of the kind of coercive interrogations carried out in our name.
The three 21/7 bombers were refused access to a lawyer initially so they could be subject to "safety interviews" – urgent interrogations carried out with the aim of protecting life and preventing serious damage to property.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in 2002 and another in Iraq in 2003, eliminating the last possibility that any criminal charges will be brought as a result of the brutal interrogations carried out by the C.I.A.
Although the prohibition applies exclusively to interrogations carried out in the name of national security abroad and at "black sites", Reisner said reformers are hoping to expand the prohibitions to prevent psychologists from abetting "domestic cruelty" in the US justice system.
"These documents contain discussion of torture and abuse and the legal implications for the British administration in Kenya of the use of coercive force in prisons and detention camps, by so-called 'screening' teams, and in other interrogations carried out by all members of the security forces".
(Expect this issue to arise in a big way when "Zero Dark Thirty," with its semi-sympathetic view of harsh interrogations, comes out later this month).
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