Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear

Washington Post by Joby Warrick, Peter Finn | Apr. 26, 2009 (News Report)

During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for "a hard time."

Over the next 25 days, beginning on March 6, 2003, Mohammed was put through a routine in which ... Full Story »

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Glenn LaBauve
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 by Glenn LaBauve - May. 3, 2009

good presentation of allegations and facts,debunking much of what has been said was fruit of torture, It did not bring up that the U S has executed forgien nationals for water boarding US POWs or that as rfecently as the 1980s a federal court in Houston ruled that the confessions given under water torture were illegal and forbiddden US v Parker.

George Bush said it best "Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture." -- George W. Bush, June 2003

“The systematic, calculated infliction of this scale of prolonged torment is immoral, debasing the perpetrators and the captives,” said Philip D. Zelikow, a political counselor to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who reviewed secret Bush administration reports about the program in 2005. “Second, forfeiting our high ground, the practices also alienate needed allies in the common fight, even allies within our own government. Third, the gains are dubious when the alternatives are searchingly compared. And then, after all, there is still the law.”

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