Origins of Post 9/11 American Interrogation Tactics

In the November 14, 2005 edition of the New York Times, an interesting op-ed was written by M. Gregg Bloche, a law professor at Georgetown University and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Jonathan H. Marks, a barrister in London and a bioethics fellow at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins. The op-ed describes how the Pentagon approved interrogation techniques that mimicked those utilized by North Korean and Vietnamese interrogators to break American prisoners. This op-ed is a must read for anyone interested in knowing why many believe that abuses of prisoners in American custody was the result of a national policy, and not just the work of a few outlaws within the DOD’s ranks.

Click here to read the editorial.

--JB