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November 4, 2006
If You're Tortured, Don't Tell Anyone
According to today's New York Times,
In papers filed in the case of Majid Khan, a Pakistani who is among 14 so-called “high-value detainees” recently transferred to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, Justice Department and C.I.A. officials argued that allowing Mr. Khan to disclose details of his treatment could cause “extremely grave damage to the national security.”“Many terrorist operatives are specifically trained in counter-interrogation techniques,” says a declaration by Marilyn A. Dorn, an official at the National Clandestine Service, a part of the C.IA. “If specific alternative techniques were disclosed, it would permit terrorist organizations to adapt their training to counter the tactics that C.I.A. can employ in interrogations.”
Can anyone really read these two paragraphs or the whole article for that matter and not think our government condones, even uses, torture? The whole idea that a person, no matter how despicable, should somehow be constrained from telling even his lawyer how he was treated while in custody is not only un-American, it's just plain nuts.
Posted by Duane Smith at November 4, 2006 3:01 PM | Read more on Current Events |
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