Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process
Just out of suriosity .. do you have any of the poems or a location for them? Sorry for the delay in answering them. Deirdre On 21 Nov 2002 at 23:17, James A. Donald wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a "great civil libertarian".
On 21 Nov 2002 at 22:24, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Yes. Clearly it's okay for torture warrants to exist -- as long as you're a member of the political class that gets to approve them...
At present, if the US wants someone terminally interrogated, they ship him to Egypt and ask the Egyptians to do the interrogation.
I am mildly suprised they do not ask the Afghans to do the interrogations, since poems have been written concerning the remarkable effectiveness of Afghan interrogations.
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There's always "The Ballad of the King's Mercy" by Kipling: http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/VersesKipling1889-18... On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 netkita@earthlink.net wrote:
Just out of suriosity .. do you have any of the poems or a location for them? Sorry for the delay in answering them. Deirdre
On 21 Nov 2002 at 23:17, James A. Donald wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote:
To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a "great civil libertarian".
On 21 Nov 2002 at 22:24, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Yes. Clearly it's okay for torture warrants to exist -- as long as you're a member of the political class that gets to approve them...
At present, if the US wants someone terminally interrogated, they ship him to Egypt and ask the Egyptians to do the interrogation.
I am mildly suprised they do not ask the Afghans to do the interrogations, since poems have been written concerning the remarkable effectiveness of Afghan interrogations.
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