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FBI Interrogator: Waterboarding Does Not Work

David Danzig | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Matthew Alexander, Waterboarding, Cia, Ali Soufan, Torture, Politics News
David Danzig

According to Ali Soufan, an FBI interrogator, waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" procedures caused a key Al Qaeda operative to clam up, not provide actionable intelligence.

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How do we Debate the Unthinkable?

Peter Henne | Posted 05.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Obama Administration, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Torture Memos, Ali Soufan, Torture, Home News
Peter Henne

The torture memos were a case of our nation's elites turning the unspeakable into the ordinary. Our responsibility now is to ensure it never becomes ordinary, even as a subject of condemnation.

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Ali Soufan Interview: FBI Interrogator Of Zubaydah Breaks Silence, Condemns Torture Tactics

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harsh Interrogation Tactics, Ali Soufan Interview, Ali Soufan, Ali Soufan Newsweek, Abu Zubaydah, War on Terror, Torture Memos, Fbi Interrogator Zubaydah, Politics News

"I've kept my mouth shut about all this for seven years," Soufan says. But now, with the declassification of Justice memos and the public assertions b...

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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