An important element in the discussion we had last night (with the Wednesday night class) about torture here.
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Wikipedia has a good entry on torture.
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The Wall Street Journal calls it the "Jack Bauer Exception." To wit, effective immediately, the interrogation of anyone "in the custody or under the effective control of an officer, employee, or other agent of the United States Government" will be conducted within the limits of the Army Field Manual. That includes special-ops and the Central Intelligence Agency, which will now be required to give prisoners gentler treatment than common criminals. The Field Manual's confines don't even allow the average good cop/bad cop routines common in most police precincts.
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