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Hard Measures

Disguising the Truth about U.S.-Sponsored Torture

Rev. Richard L. Killmer | Posted 07.03.2012 | Politics
Read More: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Jose Rodriguez, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, UN Convention Against Torture, Nrcat, Senate Intelligence Committee, Osama Bin Laden, Hard Measures, Politics News
Rev. Richard L. Killmer

As a nation founded on religious and moral values, we cannot begin to move past the shameful use of torture until we ensure that U.S. government-sponsored torture never occurs again. Justifications for the use of torture impede us from this important task.

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Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?

Barry Eisler | Posted 06.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Jose Rodriguez, Hard Measures, Jose Rodriguez Hard Measures, Torture Tapes, Torture, Interrogators, Politics News
Barry Eisler

It's hard to imagine that any American, Jose Rodriguez included, would argue waterboarding isn't torture if the tapes in question depicted Iranian or Chinese agents waterboarding captured American pilots.

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Interrogators Speak Out: America Is Morally Bipolar

Matthew Alexander | Posted 06.27.2012 | Politics
Read More: Torture, Torture Debate, Enhanced Interrogations, Jose Rodriguez, Hard Measures, Jose Rodriguez Hard Measures, Interrogators, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

Another year, another round of the torture debate -- the pattern keeps repeating itself. Each year, the pro-torture advocates submit a new mouthpiece, and each year the anti-torture advocates offer up actual interrogators.

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