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By Hilary Andersson

This is politically explosive, because the Bush administration has always claimed that it used harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding only after government lawyers had determined they did not amount to torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23556.htm

 

Prisoner Abuse Continues at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan

The facility makes Guantanamo look like a "nice hotel," in the words of one military prosecutor.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,650242,00.html

 

CIA Interrogations Likely Damaged Detainees' Brains

The methods could even have caused the suspects to create - and believe - false memories, contends the paper, which scrutinizes the techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration through the lens of neurobiology. It suggests the methods are actually counterproductive, no matter how much suspects might eventually say.

http://snipurl.com/s1whq


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