Miller allegedly tried out internationally outlawed interrogation methods at Guantanamo, and later recommended that they be used at Abu Ghraib.
And so it goes on, witness after witness, in papers and videos before the court on 29 January, calling for a public inquiry into what is presented as an orgy of sadism, outlawed interrogation methods and unlawful killings by soldiers and intelligence officers against Iraqi civilians and prisoners of war between 2003 and 2008.
It is true that Mr. Obama outlawed brutal interrogations in his first week, requiring that detainees in American custody be treated "humanely".
Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who championed legislation to outlaw inhumane interrogation techniques and was himself tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has described waterboarding as "very exquisite torture".
"It's disappointing," said Jennifer Daskal, a senior counsel at Human Rights Watch, "that Senator McCain, who has long made it clear that Congress had intended to outlaw abusive interrogation techniques including waterboarding, won't stand up to an administration that continues to say waterboarding is O.K. in certain circumstances".
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans to issue a statement on Wednesday calling for a presidential order to outlaw some interrogation and detention practices used by the Bush administration over the last six years.
Absolutely!" Bush's Presidency has been defined by the war on terror, but not in the ways that Rove intended: nonexistent W.M.D.s, Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Gonzales's acquiescence in memos condoning forms of interrogation outlawed by the Geneva Conventions, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation.
The line between legitimate interrogation and outlawed torture is ill defined, and the reluctance of governments to disclose what they are doing intensifies this murkiness.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — In a sharp rebuke to White House counterterrorism policy, a Congressional conference committee has voted to outlaw the harsh interrogation techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency against suspected high-level terrorists.
Mr Obama on entering office outlawed the use of coercive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding.
Iraqi detainees who survived the detention said they endured humiliating mistreatment and brutality, including interrogation techniques specifically outlawed by the British Government in 1972 such as: hooding, sleep deprivation, and being made to stand in painful "stress positions".
