Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings

by ANP

Lawyers who approved "enhanced interrogation tactics" are under increasing pressure to explain them.

 

 

 

 

Reporter's Notebook:

Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings

 

 

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.