2007-11-07 Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture

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  • when: 2007/11/07 (2007/11/07)
  • topics: torture ex-military
  • URL: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004659.php
  • title: Ex-Navy Instructor Promises to Hit Back If Attacked on Torture
  • summary: «Nance remarks, "Two centuries of knowledge were thrown out the window" when the administration decided after 9/11 that, to use Cofer Black's famous phrase, "the gloves come off." What administration officials mistakenly thought, Nance says, is that "these were actually gloves, not empirical data. Dude, it's not a glove. It's a fact. But they thought it was one more tool in the tool box."»