The Green Light - article by Phillipe Sands on the US torture team
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/guantanamo200805
This is the Vanity Fair article Phillipe Sands referred to when speaking at the "Terror, Security and Human Rights – The Global Perspective" on Saturday.
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure—then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.
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