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If it's not quite the elephant in the room, it is at least the snake in the corner: Elite American troops were able to kill Osama bin Laden because they were first able to identify his courier. They were able to identify his courier in part because detainees gave up vital information, some of it under extreme techniques, a.k.a., torture. The role of torture in the case is muddled but, still, several questions need to be confronted squarely. They include:

• Buffalo News
• May 06, 2011

• Police interrogation of juveniles: an empirical study of policy and practice.

I. INTRODUCTION [B]y any standards of human discourse, a criminal confession can never truly be called voluntary. With rare exception, a confession ...

• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
• Vol. 97 Nbr. 1, September 2006

• Debate Flares Anew On Harsh Interrogation

The successful operation against Osama bin Laden has rekindled debate over the use of harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush administration, as a key intelligence leader acknowledged their role in a TV interview Tuesday. CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said some threads of intelligence among the multiple origins came through the use of harsh interrogation.

• The Washington Times
• May 04, 2011

• Interrogation Of Witnesses In The Different Jurisdictions.

Interesting Aspects of the Revision of the Procedural Law in Switzerland for the foreign Litigants 1. INTRODUCTION The Swiss tiny territory, which...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Interrogation Techniques' That Led to Osama Bin Laden Capture

Judicial Watch: 2004 Bush Administration Briefing Presentation Details Specifically References Role of "Couriers" in bin Laden "Support Network WASHINGTON, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that documents recently obtained by JW from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) demonstrate the valuable information gained by so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques," that ultimately led to the recent capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Judicial Watch obtained the documents pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.

• U.S. Newswire
• May 04, 2011

• Rep. John Conyers Jr. Holds a Hearing On Administration Interrogation Rules

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY HOLDS A HEARING ON ADMINISTRATION INTERROGATION RULES JULY 17, 2008 SPEAKERS: REP. JOHN CONYERS ...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 27, 2009

• Sen. Carl Levin Holds a Hearing On Aggressive Interrogation Techniques

(RETRANSMITTED PER SUBSCRIBER REQUEST) SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOLDS A HEARING ON AGGRESSIVE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES JUNE, 17, 2008 ...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 27, 2009

• Understanding Interrogation

Real and fictional events viewed by the general public create the popular-culture interpretation and may evoke negative images of law enforcement or military personnel as hard, unpleasant, remorseless, or unkind to another person (e.g., the representation of a bright light shining into a suspect's eyes while the interrogator towers above in an otherwise dark room or the use of military police dogs terrorizing prisoners prior to an interrogative encounter). Interrogation also has a legal definition valuable to understanding, interpreting, and applying case law in the United States: In criminal law, a process of questions propounded by police to a person arrested or suspected to seek solution of crime.

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
• Vol. 77 Nbr. 10, October 2008

• Is There a Right to Remain Silent: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11

Is There A Right To Remain Silent: Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11, by Alan Dershowitz, (New York, NY: Oxford University Pre...

• Journal of Psychiatry & Law
• Vol. 37 Nbr. 4, December 2009

• Rep. Jerrold Nadler Holds a Hearing On Interrogation Practices

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES HOLDS A HEARING ON INTERROGATION PRACTICES N...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 21, 2009