Watch Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning Online' title='Watch Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning Online' />The Torture Report Investigating the Bush Administrations Rendition Detention Interrogation Program. In reading your latest post about the mystery document, I recognized many of the quotes, and wanted to share the sources with you and our readers. Watch Jack Frost Tube Free. Describe how each technique is consistent with traditional executive behavior, contemporary practice, and the standards of blame generally applied to them. This is a quote from the Supreme Court opinion, County of Sacramento v. The penultimate episode of this seasons Homeland took some unexpected twists, leading me to wonder if Peter Quinn Rupert Friend has been more prey than predator. Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 as a singleplayer video game. Recent mods have let two people play together, but a new romhack allows up to 24 to jump online and. John looks to take down Luc Deveraux after a home invasion claims his wife and daughter. The fight pits John against Andrew Scott and an army of genetically enhanced. The Next Subprime Crisis Is Here 12 Signs That A Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived For The U. S. Auto Industry. Lewis, 5. 23 U. S. That judgment may be informed by a history of liberty protection, but it necessarily reflects an understanding of traditional executive behavior, of contemporary practice, and of the standards of blame generally applied to them. To what extent are the techniques designed to instill stress, hopelessness, and fear, and to break resistance. I believe that the source of this quote is a federal appellate opinion Cooper v. Dupnik, 9. 63 F. 2d 1. Cir. 1. 99. 2   In accord with the plan, the record amply demonstrates that Cooper was subjected to Barkmans interrogation techniques designed to instill stress, hopelessness, and fear, and to break his resistance. This case sets forth a standard for what it takes to overcome the qualified immunity standard in a civil rights lawsuit against government officials. The Supreme Court denied certiorari on this case. Here is the Lexis Nexis overview of Cooper v. Dupnik 3. Do any of the techniques cause severe mental distress or suffering This language paraphrases the Convention Against Torture, Article I torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession  The prohibition on torture in the CAT has been codified into U. S. criminal law in the U. S. War Crimes Act, which provides the following definition of torture an act specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions upon another person within his custody or physical control for the purpose of obtaining information or a confession 1. U. S. C.  2. 44. A 4. How close is each technique to the rack and screw This is a quote from Rochin v. California, 3. 42 U. S. 1. 65, 1. 72 1. Supreme Court case which established the premise that evidence derived from outrageous government conduct could be excluded and convictions based on such evidence could be overturned. The full quote from Rochin   This is conduct that shocks the conscience. Illegally breaking into the privacy of the petitioner, the struggle to open his mouth and remove what was there, the forcible extraction of his stomachs contents this course of proceeding by agents of government to obtain evidence is bound to offend even hardened sensibilities. They are methods too close to the rack and the screw to permit of constitutional differentiation. Do the techniques offend hardened sensibilities Another quote from Rochin v. California, 3. 42 U. S. 1. 65, 1. 72 1. Do the techniques violate the whole community sense of decency and fairness that has been woven by common experience into the fabric of acceptable conductThis is a quote from another Supreme Court case, Breithhaupt v. Abram, 3. 52 U. S. Furthermore, due process is not measured by the yardstick of personal reaction or the sphygmogram of the most sensitive person, but by that whole community sense of decency and fairness that has been woven by common experience into the fabric of acceptable conduct. It is on this bedrock that this Court has established the concept of due process. A sphygmogram is a tracing made by a sphygmograph and consisting of a series of curves that correspond to the beats of the heart. Watch Sublime HD 1080P more. Do the techniques violate the decencies of civilized conduct Another quote from Rochin v. California, 3. 42 U. S. 1. 65, 1. 73 1. It has long since ceased to be true that due process of law is heedless of the means by which otherwise relevant and credible evidence is obtained. This was not true even before the series of recent cases enforced the constitutional principle that the States may not base convictions upon confessions, however much verified, obtained by coercion. These decisions are not arbitrary exceptions to the comprehensive right of States to fashion their own rules of evidence for criminal trials. They are not sports in our constitutional law but applications of a general principle. They are only instances of the general requirement that States in their prosecutions respect certain decencies of civilized conduct. Due process of law, as a historic and generative principle, precludes defining, and thereby confining, these standards of conduct more precisely than to say that convictions cannot be brought about by methods that offend a sense of justice. Are the techniques so egregious, so outrageous, that they fairly may be said to shock the contemporary conscienceThis is a quote from another U. S. Supreme Court opinion, County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 5. 23 U. S. I n a due process challenge to executive action, the threshold question is whether the behavior of the governmental officer is so egregious, so outrageous, that it may fairly be said to shock the contemporary conscience. That judgment may be informed by a history of liberty protection, but it necessarily reflects an understanding of traditional executive behavior, of contemporary practice, and of the standards of blame generally applied to them. The County of Sacramento quote is a paraphrasing of Rochin v. California, This is conduct that shocks the conscience. What the series of questions in this mystery document suggests is that those reviewing the interrogation techniques were concerned that the use of the techniques could subject them to criminal charges for torture or civil lawsuits for damages, and could result in the exclusion of the evidence obtained andor dismissal of entire charges in subsequent criminal prosecutions of the persons being interrogated utilizing the proposed techniques on the basis of a due process violation. This questionnaire also shows the authors awareness that the Supreme Court would likely find that Constitutional due process standards would apply to detainees when ultimately tried, even in military commissions. This series of questions highlights the importance of the Presidents decision that the Geneva Conventions, even Common Article 3, did not apply to those captured in the war on terror. If these standards applied, then you wouldnt need all these questions, because you would only need to ask one question about any proposed interrogation technique Is it humane Common Article 3 requires that persons detained in an armed conflict shall in all circumstances be treated humanely. Is it humane is the one question you will never see in any of the Bush Administration memos.