Guantanamo Torture Techniques + '24' BBC Newsnight 2008 04 25 avi clip

Guantanamo Torture Techniques + '24' BBC Newsnight 2008 04 25 avi clip

12 min

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with Emily Maitlis

Includes how 'Jack Bauer' and '24' may have influenced key decisions on how American torture techniques were conceived.

Tonight we bring you the first ever television interview with Lieutenant Colonel Diane Beaver. She was the lawyer who approved interrogation techniques for use on Guantanamo Bay prisoners that were new to the military and - many would say - both morally reprehensible and illegal under international law. Diane Beaver was acting with the higher authority of the Bush administration. She was a junior advocate and was under orders. So just how far up the ladder of the Bush administration did the buck stop? We take a look at the decisions which allowed sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation and waterboarding and hear how administration officials are now wide open to an international war crimes investigation........

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