Monday, June 22, 2009

What have we become?


Just because we claim not to do it anymore, so long as no one is held accountable we remain a nation of torturers.
The May 10 Techniques memo reveals that, when CIA's IG reviewed the program in 2003 and 2004, the maximum allowable time which a detainee could be subject to sleep deprivation was 264 hours--an amazing 11 days straight.

--emptywheel


--the BB

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