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Torture does not work. Why did the Bush Administration sell out the Constitution and our countrys proud legacy of moral authority for possibly illegal interrogation practices that do not work? Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC Countdown, breaks news, more stunning evidence about the Bush era torture scandal. William Haynes, Defense Secretary Rumsfelds lawyer, went shopping for methods of enhanced interrogation and was told in writing that selected techniques constituted torture.
The Pentagon rather than the CIA may be responsible for scandalous torture policy related activities. TIME (time.com) reports While much of the controversy over interrogation and detention practices at Guantánamo has centered on the CIA, a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report puts the spotlight firmly on the Pentagon — specifically on former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his DOD lawyer Jim Haynes, his policy chief Douglas Feith, Guantánamo commanders Major General Michael Dunleavy and Major General Geoffrey Miller, and a raft of other DOD officials. It offers a detailed account purporting to show how these officials — some of them knowingly, others unwittingly — allowed SERE techniques to be used for interrogation. It suggests, too, that many SERE experts and military lawyers raised concerns about and objections to this reverse engineering of techniques used in courses to train Americans to survive captures by communist regimes. The process began in December 2001, when the DOD's office of general counsel asked the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), which oversees the SERE program, about detainee "exploitation." Within a few months, SERE trainers were training military interrogators bound for Gitmo. (The JPRA would also pass on its expertise to the CIA.)
This from a JPRA memo in the MSNBC report: The application of extreme physical and or psychological duress (torture) has some serious operational deficits, most notably, the potential to result in unreliable information. Is the U.S. safer or more isolated and in a dangerous, dark, soulless place in the world? It is bad that 9/11 happened on Bushs watch the response to use and lie about torture makes the Bush legacy much darker. Opinion derived from various news sources.
Torture does not work. Why did the Bush Administration sell out the Constitution and our countrys proud legacy of moral authority for possibly illegal interrogation practices that do not work? Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC Countdown, breaks news, more stunning evidence about the Bush era torture scandal. William Haynes, Defense Secretary Rumsfelds lawyer, went shopping for methods of enhanced interrogation and was told in writing that selected techniques constituted torture.
The Pentagon rather than the CIA may be responsible for scandalous torture policy related activities. TIME (time.com) reports While much of the controversy over interrogation and detention practices at Guantánamo has centered on the CIA, a Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report puts the spotlight firmly on the Pentagon — specifically on former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his DOD lawyer Jim Haynes, his policy chief Douglas Feith, Guantánamo commanders Major General Michael Dunleavy and Major General Geoffrey Miller, and a raft of other DOD officials. It offers a detailed account purporting to show how these officials — some of them knowingly, others unwittingly — allowed SERE techniques to be used for interrogation. It suggests, too, that many SERE experts and military lawyers raised concerns about and objections to this reverse engineering of techniques used in courses to train Americans to survive captures by communist regimes. The process began in December 2001, when the DOD's office of general counsel asked the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), which oversees the SERE program, about detainee "exploitation." Within a few months, SERE trainers were training military interrogators bound for Gitmo. (The JPRA would also pass on its expertise to the CIA.)
This from a JPRA memo in the MSNBC report: The application of extreme physical and or psychological duress (torture) has some serious operational deficits, most notably, the potential to result in unreliable information. Is the U.S. safer or more isolated and in a dangerous, dark, soulless place in the world? It is bad that 9/11 happened on Bushs watch the response to use and lie about torture makes the Bush legacy much darker. Opinion derived from various news sources.
