Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture

Our body of experience shows a friendly approach is most successful in interrogation, Nance says. SERE's historical memory goes back to the French and Indian Wars in understanding torture methods that captured U.S. troops might face and devising strategies to resist them. He relates the story of Hans Joachim Scharff, a master Luftwaffe interrogator who spurned abusive techniques used by the Gestapo (also, interestingly, termed "enhanced interrogation") in ... Full Story »

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Martha Rosler
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by Martha Rosler - Oct. 1, 2008

this is a blog, not a story; it can' t usefully be rated for journalism, really. It is a report of remarks made by someone with the training and authority to discuss something thaht long ago (measured in centuries) has been universally recognized as torture. The fact that this point needs to be bolstered at all and that the marine officer talking about is is under sneak attack by Republican aides is the important hook here, not the status of torturing people by controlled drowning.

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