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"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" was a program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at remote sites around the world—including Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Bucharest, and Guantanamo Bay—authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.
SERE training camp at Fort Bragg.Captain Michael Kearns, Psychologist Bruce Jessen (right) John Bruce Jessen (born July 28, 1949) [1] is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees [2] and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's ...
Drafting of the manual reflected concerns about enhanced interrogation techniques and/or torture, such as water boarding, that followed after a 2003 memo by John Yoo determined that the wartime authority of the U.S. president overrode international agreements against torture. [3]
A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Corruption-Fighting Contractors Rescued and Allegedly Detained and Tortured According to the complaint filed against former Defense Secretary ...
The U.S. Senate Report on CIA Detention Interrogation Program that details the use of torture during CIA detention and interrogation. The Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program [1] is a report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s Detention and ...
In his book Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara argues that coercive interrogation and torture damage the areas of the brain that recall information. [8] Although the CIA has argued that torture for information is a science, O'Mara argues that it is in fact pseudoscience. [9]
Rumsfeld (2006), overturned Bush administration policy, ruling that the Geneva Conventions do apply. In response to the events at Abu Ghraib, the United States Department of Defense removed 17 soldiers and officers from duty. Eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery.
Image credits: Bored Panda #3 Hugh Jackman Allegedly Had A Secret Romance With His Broadway Co-Star. It looks like Wolverine’s adamantium claws won’t do Hugh Jackman any good against the ...