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If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue (Updated)
The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today if not for a memo signed by Under Secretary of Defense James R. Clapper Jr. Oct. 29, 2007.
On that day, Clapper issued a memo granting “Operational Approval of the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS)” and designating the polygraph and its cousin, the PCASS, as the “only approved credibility assessment technologies” in the Department of Defense. And that's where the problems begin.
Click here to read the complete copyrighted story, If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue, at Bob McCarty Writes.
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UPDATE 5/07/09: See If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be Issue (Part 2)




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at 08:17 on May 7th, 2009
CSVS vs the old polygraphs? Sounds like some cronyism, all about the money. let's hope some of our elected officials learn to read.