But they also view hunger strikes as a means of "asymmetrical warfare," as the Guantanamo commander told task force staff when they visited the prison in February 2012.
Banks told task force members that he had consulted with his generals within his US Army Special Operations Command and had already come to an agreement with his leaders that the 'safe, legal, ethical, and effective' framework was the appropriate way forward….
She says she was fired shortly after confronting Weinstein about the strange task, telling him "it's not my job, and I don't want to do it".
"I was told my task would be to coordinate the different forces".
But Nazir Mir, vice president of the corporation, told the task force that timing was not an issue.
A witness told a task force investigating John Muhammad's time in Antigua that he suggested kidnapping the prime minister there, a person close to the investigation said today.
But many local police officials told the task force that the program had eroded trust between them and immigrant communities by leaving the impression that they were engaged in enforcing federal immigration laws.
Perez would tell the task force about a bad case, and the detectives would fan out to prisons or to a village in Central America or to wherever the wronged party could be found, trying to corroborate Perez's story.
Others have told the task force, which will issue a final report in six weeks, that Mr. Muhammad supplied forged documents to people immigrating illegally to the United States and that he displayed a "propensity for violence".
"There must be some sort of balance between making sure that the public's right to know is sustained while the victims of certain atrocities' right to privacy is also honored," Sherlach told the task force members.
However, because participants are not told which task they were assigned to, there is ambiguity as to whether success or failure should be attributed to internal or external factors.
