Reporter's Notebook: Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings

By  David Murdock on Jul 14, 2008

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The "enhanced interrogation tactics, " used in Guantanamo under orders from the Pentagon and the White House have been the subject of numerous hearings on Capitol Hill recently. The lawyers who approved the policies - which many call torture -- are under increasing pressure to explain how it was possible for such methods to be ordered by the United States government. More hearings are on the way.

Keywords: Alberto Mora, Arlen Specter, Carl Levin, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Rumsfeld, FBI, Glenn Fine, Guantanamo, interrogation, Jack Cloonan, Philippe Sands, policy of cruelty, Robert Mueller, The Torture Team, torture, war on terror