re: #459 iceweasel

BTW, I realise james’ question as posed was offensive, but it is a fact that our interrogators have used the threat of rape and the threat of murder (of female relatives of the detainee) before. This is documented in the CIA 2004 OIG report.
It is also a fact that we raped people at Abu G. This is in the Taguba report.

I think there is universal agreement here that such techniques are wrong.

It should, however, be noted that the rape at Abu Ghraib happened in defiance of US policy, not because of it. Rape has always been defined as out of bounds for interrogations.