-- > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:33:39AM -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: > > To flesh this out a little more - the judge was Stephen > > Trott, speaking on September 18 2002 at the Commonwealth > > Club. Trott credits the torture warrant idea to Alan > > Dershowitz, whom he describes as a good friend and a "great > > civil libertarian".
On 21 Nov 2002 at 22:24, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Yes. Clearly it's okay for torture warrants to exist -- as > long as you're a member of the political class that gets to > approve them... At present, if the US wants someone terminally interrogated, they ship him to Egypt and ask the Egyptians to do the interrogation. I am mildly suprised they do not ask the Afghans to do the interrogations, since poems have been written concerning the remarkable effectiveness of Afghan interrogations. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Jyf5nXEcZGYbFVFMsrtVZ973GZhAHY04PCKLDC4a 4OpiaSbnH8yY1vYQHQAPfTAfNqbAvyyBgFMDUG6Ir