WATERBOARDING & THE LAW The November 9 editorial (“Torture’s Enablers”) claims that “the Department of Defense has authorized waterboarding for use by U.S. personnel.” In fact, the opposite is true. The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 states, “No person in the custody or under effective control of the Department of Defense or under detention in a Department of D (...)
Letters
Torture, priests, Amnesty International
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