April 21, 2009
If you've been following the matter of the "torture memos" recently released by the Obama administration you know that the President has determined that CIA operatives following legal guidance provided by the (previous) Administration should not be subject to prosecution. But apparently that leaves open the possibility that officials who approved the "enhanced interrogation" policies [...]
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April 19, 2009
Jay Bybee's memo of August 1, 2002, anaylyzed in a previous post, took the position that waterboarding and other techniques did not constitute torture, a conclusion I believe to be untenable, but Stephen Bradbury's memorandum to the CIA dated May 30, 2005, can only be described as ridiculous. Bradbury concludes that waterboarding and other harsh [...]
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