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- Title
America's Continuing Quest to Hide Torture.
- Authors
GREENBERG, KAREN J.
- Abstract
He was the detainee for whom enhanced interrogation techniques were first authorized by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, relying in part on the Justice Department's greenlighting of such techniques as "lawful" rather than as torture (legally forbidden under both domestic and international law). In 2012, for instance, Zero Dark Thirty, a movie heavily influenced by CIA advisers, argued that those harsh interrogations had helped keep America safer - specifically by leading U.S. authorities to bin Laden, a meme often repeated by government officials. On him, the CIA first tested its harsh interrogation techniques, claiming he was a leading member of al-Qaeda, an assumption later disproved.
- Subjects
TORTURE; FREEDOM of Information Act (U.S.)
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2023, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article