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              CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says
Monday, April 28th, 2008
The Justice Department’s interpretation shows the Bush administration is contending that the boundaries should have a degree of latitude, the Times said, despite the president’s order last summer that he said meant the CIA would hew to international norms on the treatment of detainees. The United States has faced heavy criticism from rights groups and some allies for its use of a simulated form of drowning known as “waterboarding” during interrogations and for holding hundreds of suspected militants in a prison camp at a U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A March 5 letter from the Justice Department to Congress makes clear the Bush administration has not set boundaries for which interrogation methods might violate the ban in the Geneva Conventions on “outrages upon personal dignity,” the Times reported. “The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act,” Brian Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, wrote in one letter. The Times said the letters were provided by the staff of Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee had received classified briefings on the matter and Wyden had requested further information, which yielded the letters, the paper said. A senior Justice Department official, speaking to the Times on condition of anonymity, said of the classified information: “I certainly don’t want to suggest that if there’s a good purpose you can head off and humiliate someone.” But he said “the fact that you are doing something for a legitimate security purpose would be relevant.” “There are certainly things that can be insulting that would not raise to the level of an outrage on personal dignity,” the official said. Have Your Say: CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “CIA torture given legal cover, newspaper says”
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Reuters | Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
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Torture does not work and it is becoming well known that the BUSH administration is indeed engaged in these various nefarious activities as there are enough whistleblowers too not take their claims very seriousely indeed . Everything from SLEEP DEPRIVATION , HUMILIATION , DRUG USE and WATERBOARDING has been cited as being used on TERROIST SUSPECTS and the important word in that sentance is SUSPECTS! . This is why torture does not work and i will give just one example of why . WATERBOARDING is where a person is strapped lying down and a hood put over their face and water is poured over and over upon the person untill within 3minutes their lungs fill with water and they effectively start to drown . After a couple of sessions of WATERBOARDING the person will swear upon their life that they do indeed live on the moon and eat cheese just to save their life they will confess too anything that the person doing the WATERBOARDING requires from them , so in fact any statemant that is gathered this way cannot be relied upon . Now do you see why torture will never work under any circumstances? . It is indeed ironic that WATERBOARDING was used as a training technique by the US special forces to show them what could happen too them if they were captured by enemy combatants that had no respect for the GENEVA CONVENTION! . Of course the BUSH administration denies the use of WATERBOARDING but like i said at the start of this post the whistleblowers just keep on comming! .