United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup investigations.
There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. --Mark Twain
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse announced today that the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts will hold the first public congressional hearing on the Bush administration's interrogation of terrorist suspects since the Obama administration last month released legal memos authorizing harsh techniques.
Won’t they be the first, period? Anyway…
His office said the hearing next Wednesday will focus on the legal analysis used to authorize harsh interrogation techniques, the ineffectiveness of those techniques, and the standards governing lawyers’ professional conduct applicable to those who authorized the procedures.The witnesses are scheduled to be Ali Soufan, a former FBI supervisory special agent, and Philip Zelikow, a former lawyer at the State Department.
Zelikow thinks Cheney tried to destroy memos Zelikow wrote questioning the legality of torture. Congress is currently searching for them.
Whitehouse has previously called for a full probe of the interrogation techniques, which President Obama presently opposes.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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