Standing Up to the Madness by Goodman Amy; Goodman David

Author:Goodman, Amy; Goodman, David [Goodman, Amy; Goodman, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Science, Political Science
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2008-05-05T15:00:00+00:00

One way to answer this question is to examine history. The phrase [“enhanced interrogation”] has a lineage. Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the Gestapo to describe what became known as the “third degree.” It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions and long-time sleep deprivation.

The United States prosecuted it as a war crime in Norway in 1948. The victims were not in uniform—they were part of the Norwegian insurgency against the German occupation—and the Nazis argued, just as Cheney has done, that this put them outside base-line protections (subsequently formalized by the Geneva conventions). 14

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