Feith Interrogated About Interrogation Methods

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Feith Interrogated About Interrogation Methods

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In this clip from Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearings about prisoner interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay, former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith gets into a tense round of questioning with Rep. Keith Ellison about what former Attorney General John Ashcroft did or didn’t tell him about interrogation vis-à-vis the Third Geneva Convention.

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By Purple Girl, July 18, 2008 at 5:52 am Link to this comment

What a dumbass example of the techniques they would employee. Like someone would give up just for a smoke! Please the reasoning was purely to use Torture techniques to get them to talk- ONLY.
Please the prisons are probably ‘Non Smoking’ anyway!
Interantional Red Cross- PLEASE level War crimes Charges NOW!!!!

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