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Former head legal counsel for George W Bush, Steven G Bradbury authored several memoranda addressing the legality of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved by the CIA, finding the practices lawful if applied in accordance with "specified conditions, limitations, and safequards."

5:45 pm dinner
6:00 pm conversation

Challenge the academic culture that justifies torture:

It is necessary to question the consequences of the use of torture on the principles and practices of scholarship and education. By either openly or passively condoning torture, for example through our silence, we send a devastating message not only to our students, but also to the community at large: that the prohibition against torture is negotiable or even dispensable. Especially in the humanities, where cutting edge thinking explores concepts and experiences such as "responsibility", "otherness", "difference", "memory", "trauma", our work and research become entirely irrelevant if, today, we ignore the implications of a re-legitimization of torture.