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To: LindyBill who wrote (127657)	7/26/2005 3:10:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793838

I don't think they took any more abuse than any normal prison. Oh, please. If they didn't, someone wasn't doing their job. They aren't there to play patty-cake. Here's one of the famous "torture memos," setting forth what's permissible without crossing the line. washingtonpost.com The memo, which is to Gonzales, explains that treatment which is cruel, harsh, or degrading is legal, even treatment which causes intense mental and physical suffering, unless it causes actual bodily injury or causes suffering so intense that it constitutes torture. Torture is "extreme, deliberate and unusually cruel." The author of the memo is intellectually honest. He doesn't pretend that coercive interrogation techniques don't cause pain and suffering. In fact, pain and suffering are among the tools which are used. Edited: I removed some references to Gonzales -- the memos were to him, which doesn't mean he agreed with them, although my sense is that he did.