http://www.metafilter.com/tags/interrogations Posts tagged with 'interrogations' at MetaFilter. Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:53:05 -0800 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:53:05 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/70483/The%2DChain%2Dof%2DCommand%2Din%2DCoercive%2DInterrogations <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/guantanamo200805?printable=true&currentPage=all">“You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas."</a> A <i>Vanity Fair</i> reporter investigates the chain of command that tossed out the Geneva Conventions and instituted coercive interrogation techniques -- some might call them torture or even <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/02/yoo/">war crimes</a> -- in Bush's Global War on Terror. UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo's now-obsolete 81-page memo to the Pentagon in 2003 [available as PDFs <a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/pdfs/OLCMemo1-19.pdf?sid=ST2008040102264">here<a> and <a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/pdfs/OLCMemo20-39.pdf">here</a>] was crucial, offering a broad range of legal justifications and deniability for disregarding international law in the name of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html">"self-defense."</a> Others <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/02/yoo-memo-results-in-bad-reporting/">say</a> that Yoo was just making "a clear point about the limits of Congress to intrude on the executive branch in its exercise of duties as Commander in Chief." [previously <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/68904/Mukaseys-Nuremburg-defence">here</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/38012/An-Executive-Order-Along-Tortures-Path">here</a>.]</a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70483 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:53:05 -0800 911 9-11 AbuGhraib addington al-qaeda Berkeley bush Cheney coercive Constitution feith Geneva GOP guantanamo Haynes internationallaw interrogations Iraq Republicans rumsfeld terror torture unitaryexecutive yoo digaman http://www.metafilter.com/32998/Chain%2DOf%2DCommand <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11017-2004May8?language=printer" title="In April 2003, the Defense Department approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permit reversing the normal sleep patterns of detainees and exposing them to heat, cold and ''sensory assault,'' including loud music and bright lights, according to defense officials. The classified list of about 20 techniques was approved at the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Justice Department, and represents the first publicly known documentation of an official policy permitting interrogators to use physically and psychologically stressful methods during questioning. THE USE OF ANY OF THESE TECHNIQUES REQUIRES THE APPROVAL OF SENIOR PENTAGON OFFICIALS -- AND, IN SOME CASES, THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. Interrogators must justify that the harshest treatment is ''militarily necessary,'' according to the document, as cited by one official. Once approved, the harsher treatment must be accompanied by ''appropriate medical monitoring.''...''We wanted to find a legal way to jack up the pressure,'' said one lawyer who helped write the guidelines. ''We wanted a little more freedom than in a U.S. prison, but not torture.'' Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said: ''These procedures are tightly controlled, limited in duration and scope, used infrequently and approved on a case-by-case basis.''">Chain </a> <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4933882" title="Within weeks after September 11, senior officials at the Pentagon and the White House began the drive to maximize American freedom of action. They attacked specifically the Geneva Conventions, which govern behavior during wartime. Donald Rumsfeld explained that the conventions did not apply to today's ''set of facts.'' He and his top aides have tried persistently to keep prisoners out of the reach of either American courts or international law, presumably so that they can be handled without those pettifogging rules as barriers. Rumsfeld initially fought both the uniformed military and Colin Powell, who urged that prisoners in Guantanamo be accorded rights under the conventions. Eventually he gave in on the matter but continued to suggest that the protocols were antiquated. Last week he said again that the Geneva Conventions did not ''precisely apply'' and were simply basic rules.">Of </a><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/05/07/rights/print.html" title="The bar association's 110-page report, released last week, leaves no doubt that the practices revealed at Abu Ghraib violated both U.S. and international law. During the preparation of that report, Horton and his colleagues were more concerned with practices in Afghanistan and Guant&#0225;namo than in Iraq. What they have learned recently, however, suggests that questionable practices and attitudes toward prisoners stem from broad policy decisions made at the very highest levels of the Defense Department. Indeed, Horton says that the JAG officers specifically warned him that Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith,one of the most powerful political appointees in the Pentagon, had significantly weakened the military's rules and regulations governing prisoners of war. The officers told Horton that Feith and the Defense Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes II, were creating ''an atmosphere of legal ambiguity'' that would allow mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Conason - Salon">Command</a> <br><small>(More Inside)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.32998 Sun, 09 May 2004 12:04:23 -0800 abuse Afghanistan ChainofCommand interrogations Iraq torture war y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/25713/Well%2DSaddam%2Dshot%2Dpeople%2Dfor%2Dless <a href="http://www.kron.com/global/story.asp?s=1268949&amp;ClientType=Printable">"We own you, you don't have any legal rights"</a> U.S. Secret Service agents aggressively interrogate two Bay Area high school students after their teacher reports their remarks on President Bush, made during in-class discussion on the war in Iraq, to authorities. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25713 Mon, 12 May 2003 04:31:31 -0800 interrogations schools SecretService students troutfishing http://www.metafilter.com/17715/ <a href="http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAYDVM6L0D.html">They Have Ways of Making Al-Qaida Talk</a> Interrogations must be pretty damn <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/011220-attack01.htm">crucial</a> these days. Given advances in science during the past twenty years, how much more sophisticated can <a href="http://www.radio4all.org/crackcia/torture.htm">CIA methods</a> have become since the <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/40/049.html"> 80's</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.17715 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:54:07 -0800 alQaeda brokenlink CIA interrogations torture Voyageman