The Nuremberg Precedent and the Obama Admnistration

WE NOW have what the Central Intelligence Agency wanted kept secret: memos showing the Bush Justice Department authorized the CIA use of interrogation techniques ranging from waterboarding to facial slapping in order to get information from senior Al Qaeda operatives.

The CIA’s fears about the damage that could be caused by the memos are understandable. The memos with their “doublethink” read as if they were taken from George Orwell’s 1984. 

Waterboarding:  According to the Bush Justice Department, waterboarding by the CIA was per... More