Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval for doing so — and weeks before the CIA had captured its first high-ranking terrorist suspect, Senate investigators have concluded. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Turns out the CIA and Pentagon were exploring harsh interrogation methods before they even had prisoners and: “up to eight months before Justice Department lawyers approved the use of waterboarding and nine other harsh methods.” Then there were all those: “multiple warnings–from legal and trained interrogation experts–that the techniques could backfire, and might violate U.S. and international law.” So much for those “if we only knew” excusing stories.
The Bush government’s “hurt, bother, maim, and kill” policies would put any Banana Republic to shame