Back to News & Commentary

Torture Memos vs. Red Cross Report

Share This Page
April 24, 2009

If you鈥檝e read the torture memos, you鈥檝e probably noticed the technical and detached language used by government lawyers to describe and authorize specific interrogation techniques, including facial slaps, stress positions, sleep deprivation, nudity and waterboarding. Compared against prisoners鈥 own accounts of their treatment, the differences between descriptions are striking.

Based on research compiled by the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Alex Abdo and Leila Tabbaa, today that features a side-by-side comparison of the 鈥渢orture techniques鈥 from the memos to prisoners鈥 own accounts of these same techniques from the (PDF). The details speak for themselves.

and check it out.

In related news, yesterday the Defense Department announced that by the end of May, it will make public a 鈥渟ubstantial number鈥 of photos depicting the abuse of prisoners by U.S. personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan at locations other than Abu Ghraib. The photos are being turned over as part of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Learn More 老澳门开奖结果 the Issues on This Page