The regulations allowed the police to arrest anybody suspected of having acted or being likely to act in a way that would threaten security without evidence or a warrant, hold them incommunicado for investigation, and detain them indefinitely without the detainee ever being charged with a crime or tried in a court of law.
However, without the detainees to do the work, the Home Office would have to pay more than seven times as muchto external workers.
However, Preston, in his answers to Udall, agrees with the Senate report's finding that it is sometimes possible to determine that there were other ways that the C.I.A. could have obtained the same information, without tormenting detainees.
"I can confirm that it did happen, but I can't explain it to you without violating the detainee's privacy".
Pentagon and intelligence officials said the decision to hold the detainee without registering him -- at least initially -- was in keeping with the administration's legal opinion about the status of those viewed as an active threat in wartime.
At the same briefing, Daniel J. Dell'Orto, the Pentagon's principal deputy general counsel, said the initial decision to hold the detainee without registering him was permissible, at least temporarily, for security reasons.
For instance, lawmakers have barred the administration from transferring any detainee without the Pentagon certifying that, among other requirements, the receiving country is not "facing a threat that is likely to substantially affect its ability to exercise control over the individual".
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The perversion is even deeper when you consider that approval of the program by the Justice Department rested on assurances that doctors -- pledged by oath and law to heal the sick -- would be on site to regulate how much pain and psychological distress could be imposed on a detainee without causing "prolonged mental harm".
Without a key connecting detainee names to the corpse numbers, identifying the dead is difficult.
