re: #665 Spare O’Lake

Were all, some, or none of them being interrogated at the time? Because the use of force during interrogation is what we are discussing here, not whether killing or torturing prisoners is generally permissible.

Some of them died while left in stress positions. You can’t seamlessly differentiate between ‘during an interrogation’ and ‘not during an interrogation’ where the EIT are concerned. They are specifically designed such that the prisoner is in effect always in interrogation: interrogations happen randomly and meanwhile the prisoner is subjected to random beatings, walling, left in stress positions, sleep deprived, etc— all in order to break him down. The interrogation process doesn’t really have a beginning or an end— it’s designed that way.

So trying to make a distinction like “were they being asked questions at the exact time they died” doesn’t help.