Monday, June 28, 2004

DoJ covets interrogation rule rights

According to USA Today, a still-classified legal memo also written in August 2002 was "far more detailed and explicit" than the one the administration declassified last week, and had the approval of high-level officials in the Justice Department. The more detailed memo reportedly "spelled out specific interrogation methods that the CIA could use against top al-Qaeda members…A current Justice official who knows the memo's contents said it specifically authorized the CIA to use 'waterboarding,' in which a prisoner is made to believe he is suffocating." Initially, the Office of Legal Counsel was in charge of approving specific interrogation techniques, but "high-ranking Justice Department officials intercepted the CIA request, and the matter was handled by top officials in the deputy attorney general's office and Justice's criminal division."
From the Progress Report

Waterboarding. Sounds like a fun sport, doesn't it?

Somehow, I can almost feel John Jesus AssKKKroft relishing the chance to bring God's own interrogation methods from the days of the Spanish Inquisition and witch trials back into the modern era in which we have strayed from God's holy will.


image from Dunking Stool

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