The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means

What is needed is not more disclosures but a broadly persuasive judgment, delivered by people who can look at all the evidence, however highly classified, and can claim bipartisan respect on the order of the Watergate Select Committee or the 9/11 Commission, on whether or not torture made Americans safer. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Apr 10, 2009 - 2:49 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 10, 2009

Danner was involved in posting the ICRC report. Here he explores the issues involved with torture and the facts revealed in the report. The style is a bit ponderous, but the relevance and importance is very high.

I think he focuses too much on whether the torture provided useful intelligence. The negative effects and the international illegality and inhumanity of torture seem to deserve more focus.

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