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Administration lawyers constructed illegal authorization of the practice of what amounted to torture in late 2002. a practice that was ongoing in the months and years of 9/11. the memos specifically okayed things like putting a prisoner in, quote, stress positions or slamming them against the wall and as many remember, waterboarding. those were some of the techniques used against detainees after 9/11. and while at first some did claim that accidents like abu ghraib were rogue actions by a few bad apples, we know these actions were far of the official policy because, well, because those incriminating memos were released. at the time the cia requested a cover there, a request that being granted it ended with the drafting of the torture memos by senior lawyers at the justice department. a lot of it is history. there are officials who did resist the program, who raised red flags. ultimately, most of those people lost and most programs went on. that s how the u.s. came to pursue detention a ....
The memos specifically okayed things like putting a prisoner in, quote, stress positions or slamming them against the wall and as many remember, waterboarding. those were some of the techniques used against detainees after 9/11. and while at first some did claim that accidents like abu ghraib were rogue actions by a few bad apples, we know these actions were far of the official policy because, well, because those incriminating memos were released. at the time the cia requested a cover there, a request that being granted it ended with the drafting of the torture memos by senior lawyers at the justice department. the rest? a lot of it is history. there are officials who did resist the program, who raised red flags. ultimately, most of those people lost and most programs went on. that s how the u.s. came to pursue detention and interrogation in ways that are being investigated to this day. and, well, whatever happened to those people who wrote the legal justification for the u.s. to engag ....