I’m afraid those still in denial about what CIA interrogators were authorised to do to their prisoners will have to swallow their pride and read these. I particularly recommend the August 1, 2002 Bybee-to-Rizzo memo, which details, with medieval attention to detail, how Abu Zubaydah was to be tortured. For his side of the story, read the ICRC report here.
About that Torture Thing, Ctd.
April 17, 2009 by Jari
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Medieval attention to detail, hmmm. I don’t think torturers during the medieval period ever considered the victim’s overall well being in the way described in the report. You did read the report right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
As much as the NYT report kevtches about the slamming against the wall of Zubaydah..which in the report was a “false wall” ment to bounce the subject without hurting him….I find the last entence more informative.
NYT: “In an interview, an intelligence officer said that the current view was that Abu Zubaydah was “an important terrorist facilitator” who disclosed “essential raw material for successful counterterrorist action.”
His interrogation “made it possible for the United States to chip away at Al Qaeda, link by link, disrupting its operations and saving lives,” the intelligence officer said.”
Placing top “high value” suspects into jail, and allowing them to be “lawyered up”, would not have led to the badly needed break-up of al-Qaida cells from their chain-of-command. I would willing to wager that even the playing of loud music and the tickling of a feather duster would be a red line crossed.
It’s typical of those who are outraged over US highly regulated interrogation methods to never reveal what they would deem as permissable, just what is not.