"Mistakes" with torture....
Two separate articles this morning discussing "mistakes" with aggressive detainee policies.
(AP) Condi Rice tells a Congressional hearing "that the United States mishandled the case of a Canadian engineer (Maher Arar) seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he and the Canadian government say he was tortured.
Rice, speaking at a U.S. congressional hearing, said the United States has told Canada "that we will try to do better in the future."
And, the WaPo has a story about Abdallah Higazy, the Egyptian who was detained after 9-11 for allegedly having a "pilot's radio" (which wasn't his.)
He was told to confess or "the security service in his native Egypt would give his family "hell." Higazy responded by confessing to a crime he didn't commit."
(AP) Condi Rice tells a Congressional hearing "that the United States mishandled the case of a Canadian engineer (Maher Arar) seized by U.S. officials and taken to Syria, where he and the Canadian government say he was tortured.
Rice, speaking at a U.S. congressional hearing, said the United States has told Canada "that we will try to do better in the future."
And, the WaPo has a story about Abdallah Higazy, the Egyptian who was detained after 9-11 for allegedly having a "pilot's radio" (which wasn't his.)
He was told to confess or "the security service in his native Egypt would give his family "hell." Higazy responded by confessing to a crime he didn't commit."
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