CIAディレクターは苦悶を守る

PAMELA HESS

ミハエルHayden CIAディレクターは伝えられるところではCIAの質問プログラムの部分だった技術を拒絶するために司法長官被任命者にブッシュ大統領取付けられた政治的圧力として彼の代理店の質問の練習火曜日を守った。

「貴重であると正当な私達のプログラム全体的な出来事のシカゴ議会に配達のために準備される注目で」、はHayden言ったである。 「テロリストおよび彼らの計画の最もよい資料源であるテロリスト自身」。は

Haydenは「その知性のかけがえのない性質私達が演出を有する唯一の理由、延滞および質問プログラム」。がであることを言った

Several senior Senate Democrats had vowed to vote against the president’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, unless he stated unequivocally that the practice of “waterboarding” is torture. That would render the practice illegal. The U.S. military already forbids it.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats late Tuesday, Mukasey called waterboarding “repugnant” but said he didn’t know if it is illegal because he hasn’t been cleared to receive a classified briefing on it. If after further study he finds that it is, he would rescind any federal legal opinion that allows its use, he wrote.

In September, ABC News reported that Hayden had banned waterboarding in CIA interrogations in 2006. Agency officials have neither confirmed nor denied waterboarding prisoners in the past, and they would not confirm the reported ban.

It is believed that fewer than five high-value detainees have been subjected to waterboarding, and the technique has not been used since 2003.

Waterboarding simulates drowning by immobilizing a prisoner with his head lower than his feet and pouring water over his face. Hayden said harsher interrogation techniques are used in “small, carefully run operations” that have been applied to fewer than 35 prisoners since 2002.

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