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Mr. Mansfield said the agency had provided Defense Department investigators with documents including "copies of C.I.A. guidance to its officers in Iraq regarding interrogations and debriefings".
As the New York Times reported Thursday, dissident members of the professional mental health community allege that a government researcher contributed language to a 2005 APA policy regarding interrogations.
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The debate continues over whether President Obama was wise to release documents regarding "interrogation techniques" and the results of that policy.
Asked for comment on this story, a Pentagon spokesman said, "I will not discuss any covert programs; however, Dr. Cambone did not assume his position as the Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence until March 7 , 2003 and had no involvement in the decision-making process regarding interrogation procedures in Iraq or anywhere else".
Earlier this year, William J. Strickland, the Society of Military Psychologists' representative with the American Psychological Association, said the accusations against psychologists regarding the interrogations were highly speculative and lacked any clear evidence of wrongdoing.
In the regular world, we've become used to Democrats urging the release of more information regarding abusive interrogations and Republicans suggesting that any such exposure to sunlight would kill the beneficial organisms contained in those programs.
After a difficult five-year investigation, Feinstein's committee has concluded that the CIA gave its overseers, Congress and the White House "extensive inaccurate information" regarding its interrogations and that its methods were "far more brutal" than the CIA had admitted.
The Justice Ministry declined to deny this report, saying only that "the decisions regarding the interrogations were made by the head of the Shin Bet, in terms of his authority, with the oversight and accompaniment of the most senior officials in the Justice Ministry, headed by the attorney general.
As far as my experience goes regarding hostile interrogations, the take-away skills that apply to dealing with the media are the ability to think fast on your feet, remember your lines, and not lose your cool, no matter how much they want to rattle you.
Two weeks ago, the Justice Department declassified four memos regarding the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush Administration and used by the C.I.A. with senior level Al Qaeda members.
When he expanded Mr. Durham's mandate, Mr. Holder also stressed that the Justice Department would "not prosecute anyone who acted in good faith and within the scope of the legal guidance given by the Office of Legal Counsel regarding the interrogation of detainees".
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