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To: H-Net List on Human Rights <H-HUMAN-RIGHTS@h-net.msu.edu> People might be interested in the NY review of Books piece this month on torture. It is on line at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23114?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_content=731159698&utm_campaign=October +8%2c+2009+issue+_+khujdk&utm_term=TheTortureMemosTheCaseAgainsttheLawyers or go to their webpage at http://www.nybooks.com/articles First paragraph reads: "On Monday, August 24, as President Obama began his vacation on Martha's Vineyard, his administration released a previously classified 2004 report by the CIA's inspector general that strongly criticized the techniques employed to interrogate "high-value" al-Qaeda suspects at the CIA's secret prisons.[1] The report revealed that CIA agents and contractors, in addition to using such "authorized" and previously reported tactics as waterboarding, wall-slamming, forced nudity, stress positions, and extended sleep deprivation, also employed a variety of "unauthorized, improvised, inhumane and undocumented" methods. These included threatening suspects with a revolver and a power drill; repeatedly applying pressure to a detainee's carotid artery until he began to pass out; staging a mock execution; threatening to sexually abuse a suspect's mother; and warning a detainee that if another attack occurred in the United States, "We're going to kill your children." Jake
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