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Throughout that period, Soufan says he never felt the need for harsh interrogation methods. He argues that techniques like waterboarding don't work. "When they are in pain, people will say anything to get the pain to stop. Most of the time, they will lie, make up anything to make...
"When you serve on [an] intelligence committee you sign a second oath - one of secrecy." -Explaining why she had not delayed in disclosing that she filed an objection to CIA interrogation tactics like waterboarding, a program she was briefed on in 2002. (Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2007)
But, the objection may not be entirely self-serving. The European reservations mirror those of many members of Congress and a number of economists. Although the same analysis will be rehashed in London, the question is whether the financial world has changed enough during the two months since the G...
The targeted implementation date for the digitization project, 2014, is viable, said Zeckhauser, but its success will depend on how much political objection there is in the interim—the roadblocks to implementing this project are administrative, not technical, he said.
An excessive degree of secrecy casts a suspicious light on any government and lends support to accusations of dubious motives. Indeed, the British High Court, which reviewed the material in question, asserted that it was “difficult to conceive that a democratically elected government could possibly have any...