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...Meanwhile, the steady revelation in scope of America’s systematic employment of “harsh interrogation techniques?? (read: torture) has also drawn into relief the high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...debate about “enhanced interrogation techniques??—known more colloquially as torture—in itself stands little altered by these developments: It was clear long ago that torture produces little or no useful information while at the same time coming at a great cost to America’s moral authority in the world, also leaving captured American soldiers at greater risk of mistreatment...
...Monson for her playing during his “Conspiracies for Solo Flute and Four ‘Other Flutes.’” Bresnick emphasized the importance of multiphonics—a novel way of playing the flute that relies on unusual fingerings and special blowing techniques??to the composition. Multiphonics are one of the many innovations that have furthered the development of electroacoustic music...
...outside scrutiny is nothing new. By playing to popular anxiety, the Bush administration succeeded in authorizing the CIA’s current interrogation regime in 2002 without scrutiny from either side of the aisle. Knowledge of the Agency’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques?? has been widespread for months...
Feinstein, too, lowers the bar by praising Mukasey. She accepts his statement that, “I was asked at the hearing and in your letter questions about the hypothetical use of certain coercive interrogation techniques??hypotheticals are different from real life, and in any legal opinion the actual facts and circumstances are critical.” Mukasey would have you believe that questions about waterboarding are purely hypothetical in nature...