“An interrogation without stress is not an interrogation — it is a conversation”
September 4th, 2007
Documents newly released by the ACLU contain the nugget illustrating the thinking of US interrogators in Iraq. [From the New York Times]:
Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer was convicted of negligent homicide in the death of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush after a January 2006 court-martial that received wide attention because of possible C.I.A. involvement in the interrogation.
But even after his conviction, Mr. Welshofer insisted his actions were appropriate and standard, documents show.
“The simple fact of the matter is, interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you will get no information,” he wrote in a letter to the court asking for clemency. “To put it another way, an interrogation without stress is not an interrogation — it is a conversation.”
Entry Filed under: Interrogation, Iraq, Torture, War Crimes
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