Haaretz: “CIA lawyers used Israels Supreme Court rulings to legally justify torture according to the scathing report published Tuesday by the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIAs interrogation of terror suspects. According to the 528-page document, CIA lawyers used the rulings of Israels Supreme Court to construct a legal case justifying torture. In a draft memorandum prepared by the CIAs Office of General Counsel, the Israeli example was cited as a possible justification that torture was necessary to prevent imminent, significant, physical harm to persons, where there is no other available means to prevent the harm. The CIA attorney also referred to the Israeli Supreme Courts ticking time bomb scenario and said that enhanced techniques could not be preapproved for such situations, but that if worse came to worse, an officer who engaged in such activities could assert a common-law necessity defense, if he were ever prosecuted. In 2005, as members of the U.S. Congress began asking more questions regarding the CIAs enhanced interrogation techniques, the intelligence agency began planning a public-relations campaign to drum up support for its methods.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:17:21 +0000
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