Authoritarianism

Waterboarding Does Not Work

Check out HRF’s David Danzig writing at The Huffington Post about today’s Senate hearing on torture and how professional interrogators agree that torture and abuse do not produce actionable intelligence.

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Published on May 13, 2009

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