UNITED STATES: Treatment of detainees stokes debate

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  • Abu Ghraib fallout
  • Secret CIA facilities?
  • McCain's intervention
  • Administration rebuff
  • Ambiguous activities
  • Rendition
  • Yugoslav example
  • Current CIA practice
  • Washington's rationale
  • Drawbacks
  • 'Enhanced interrogation'
  • Government divisions
  • FBI position
  • Pentagon practices
  • CIA interrogations
  • Terms of debate
  • Rejecting torture
  • The law
  • Efficacy of torture
  • Available 'alternatives'
  • Efficacy
  • 'Water-boarding'
  • Policy precedents
  • 'Collateral damage'

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