And Muhammad Saad Iqbal was not-tortured so thoroughly that he may never recover, *after* CIA interrogators had concluded that he was a “braggart” and a “wannabe” rather than anyone posing an actual threat.
And Muhammad Saad Iqbal was not-tortured so thoroughly that he may never recover. And that was after CIA interrogators had concluded that he was a “braggart” and a “wannabe” rather than anyone posing an actual threat.
This is part of what Leon Panetta was chosen to end.
Since we’re not planning to do this sort of crap anymore, there’s no genuine security reason for keeping it secret. The Bush Administration had a hard time putting actual terrorists on trial because so much of the evidence against them was obtained under torture, and the details of that torture had to be kept secret at all costs. The Obama Administration, with a CIA Director untainted by all the Jack Bauer nonsense of the past eight years, faces no such problem.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
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