I know this is not a diary, but there are no open threads at the moment.
Document: Military Agency Called Harsh Methods 'Torture,' Questioned Their Effectiveness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The military agency that helped to devise harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects referred to the application of extreme duress as "torture" in a July 2002 document sent to the Pentagon's chief lawyer and warned that it would produce "unreliable information."
"The unintended consequence of a U.S. policy that provides for the torture of prisoners is that it could be used by our adversaries as justification for the torture of captured U.S. personnel," says the document, an unsigned two-page attachment to a memo by the military's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency. Parts of the attachment, obtained in full by The Washington Post, were quoted in a Senate report on harsh interrogation released this week.
This story gives us more information about the report that was released, in part,earlier in the week
A full copy of the memo is attached to the article and linked below the fold (pdf):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The report is entitled: Operational Issues Pertaining To The Use Of Physical/Psychological Coercion in Interrogation.
I might take this down if something more substantive come up as a diary.