Torture: If The Detainee Dies, You’re Doing It Wrong
THE US Senate torture hearings:
A key step came in early October 2002, when a lawyer for the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, Jonathan Fredman, visited Guantanamo to discuss “aggressive” techniques for interrogation. Fredman explained “the wet towel technique,” according to unclassified minutes of his meeting with senior Guantanamo commanders — also known as waterboarding.
Discussing what the law permitted when it comes to interrogation, Levin, quoting from the minutes, Fredman said: “It is basically subject to perception. If the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.”
The response, from Guantanamo chief of staff, Lt. Col. Diane Beaver: “We’ll need documentation to protect us.”
Hide the bodies…
Posted: 18th, June 2008 | In: Twitterings, War On Terror Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:30 am
..it’s always a rough night in Croydon, so I am led to believe…..
June 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Well, I believe Gordie has recently opined that we are fighting in Afghanistan to avoid fighting in Croydon, but he may well have had a rough night…
June 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
don’t think it matters how much we would be prepared to do in either of those countries - we will always be seen as infidels and foreigners, non-muslims who should at the very least NOT be in their country at all and at worst, dead at their feet.
Personally I would prefer to see the money spent building schools, hospitals and roads in THIS country, rather than wasting the lives of our (extremely dedicated) armed forces on a war which was never ours and which will never be won.
unless the USA radically changes its attitude to this, we here in the UK will forever be aligned with this “civilised nation” and its foreign policy, to the detriment of our troops and for what, quite frankly…?
June 18th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Such a civilised nation.
Is it me or is it just plain daft to treat suspected terrorists this way? For every one you torture, or mistreat there are a hundred new recruits who now have a ‘valid’ reason to fight…
I don’t know the answer but it seems to me that there are some fundementalists who will never change and they should be locked up, but there are hundreds of thousands of people willing to be swayed either way. Shouldn’t we be building schools and hospitals and roads in Afganistan and Iraq and let the normal majority decide how to run their country knowing that we are genuine freinds/allies?