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- Title
Interrogation's Law.
- Authors
Levi, William Ranney
- Abstract
Conventional wisdom states that recent U.S. authorization of coercive interrogation techniques, and the legal decisions that sanctioned them, constitute a dramatic break with the past. This is false. U.S. interrogation policy well prior to 9/11 has allowed a great deal more flexibility than the high-minded legal prohibitions of coercive tactics would suggest: all interrogation methods allegedly authorized since 9/11, with the possible exception of waterboarding, have been authorized before. The conventional wisdom thus elides an intrinsic characteristic of all former and current laws on interrogation: they are vague and contestable, and thus, when context so demands, manipulable.
- Subjects
UNITED States; QUESTIONING; MILITARY interrogation; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; WATERBOARDING; TORTURE; TERRORISM; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2009, Vol 118, Issue 7, p1434
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article