Owning up to Torture: Lawyers provided the setup

June 10, 2010 2:37 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Government lawyers, after all, gave medical personnel the green light for human experimentation. They provided the legal framework and justification. They paved the way for subjecting prisoners to isolation and sleep deprivation, painful stress positions, simulated drowning, cruel exposure to extreme cold and other forms of abuse.

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