Summary
A year after the nation first learned of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by U.S. personnel, and then learned that the abuses weren't confined to that prison, the debate over brutal interrogation techniques has turned toward the conclusion that those techniques aren't very effective because the subject of them will say almost anything to avoid being further beaten. Trained military interviewers must wonder what took everyone so long.
A long diversion might be the answer. While the Bush administration was pondering what came to be called the torture memo from Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, then the president's counsel, the Marine Corps Interrogator Translator Team, according to an article in the latest Atlantic, was discussing a very different memo, one of the "timeless documents" of the profession, "a standard read" for people in the field, the article quotes the Marines as saying.See the full content of this document
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Yielding to Sympathy
That document, written in July 1943 by Maj. Sherwood Moran, doesn't address the legalistic...
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