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US interrogation tactics were torture: former State Department lawyer

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Former US State Department (DOS) lawyer Vijay Padmanabhan criticized the administration of former president George W. Bush for approving the use of extreme interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects, in an interview with the Associated Press reported Friday. Padmanabhan, who now teaches at Cardozo School of Law in New York, served as the DOS's chief counsel on Guantanamo Bay and Iraq detentions, and said that he believed the interrogation tactics used against some detainees constituted torture. He said the Bush administration was wrong to argue that the detainees were not protected by Geneva Convention rights, and that the tactics were an overreaction to the 9/11 attacks against the US. Earlier this month, excerpts from a previously-undisclosed report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) characterizing tactics used against terrorism suspects at Guantanamo as torture were published in the New York Review of Books. Also this month, former Colin Powell aide Lawrence Wilkerson criticized the Bush administration for arbitrarily detaining innocent civilians at the base.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 29, 2009 (boomark / email).