Interrogational drugs

In today's FISA update, mcjoan refers to comments by Jeff Stein at CQ on the use of interrogational drugs in light of the Yoo torture memo.

"Yes, I believe they have been used," Jeffrey S. Kaye, a clinical psychologist who works with torture victims at Survivors International in San Francisco, told me.

"I came across some evidence that they were using mind-altering drugs, to regress the prisoners, to ascertain if they were using deception techniques, to break them down," said Kaye.

Lovely.

Mcjoan concludes:

Here's yet another reason for Congress to, as Marty Lederman has argued, put a moratorium on "considering any administration legislative proposals until all of the memos have been disclosed and (appropriately) repudiated by the Department of Justice." That goes doubly for FISA.

--the BB