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# The Global Intelligence Files

On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.

## RE: Torture Supporter

Released on 2012-09-01 01:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1027
Date | 2005-12-01 17:51:53
From | bill@indexaustin.com
To | foshko@stratfor.com, Will.Allensworth@haynesboone.com

Sure.
Bill Ott
Index Austin Real Estate, Inc.
1950 Rutland Dr.
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 476-3300 P
(512) 476-3310 F
bill@indexaustin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Allensworth, Will W. [mailto:Will.Allensworth@haynesboone.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:47 AM
To: Bill Ott; foshko@stratfor.com
Subject: RE: Torture Supporter
Hey are we doing lunch today Bill?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Ott [mailto:bill@indexaustin.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:29 AM
To: Allensworth, Will W.; foshko@stratfor.com
Subject: Torture Supporter
Abu Ghraib was a travesty and a tragedy. It tarnished America's reputation
and credibility. It gave ammunition to America's enemies and critics. It
set back progress in Iraq.
What took place at Abu Ghraib was illegal - and those responsible have
been rightly prosecuted and punished.
So what is the point of Sen. John McCain's amendment to ban "cruel,
inhuman, or degrading" treatment of any prisoner by any agent of the
United States?
His proposal might be seen as simply sending a message, a way to clean up
the mess left by Abu Ghraib -- legislation in the service of public
relations.
The problem is the amendment fails to distinguish between two very
distinct situations: (1) ordinary prisoners being detained as punishment
for crimes or simply to keep them from returning to the battlefield, and
(2) captured terrorists in possession of information that could save
lives.
In regard to the first situation, McCain is correct. Such prisoners should
never be abused - certainly not for amusement or to indulge sadistic
impulses (as, nevertheless, happens in prisons around the world).
The second situation is not so simple. The most notorious scenario is, of
course, the "ticking time bomb." What should be permissible when a threat
is imminent and making a suspect talk can mean the difference between life
and death? Such circumstances are not as rare as some contend.
For example, two years ago, there was controversy over the actions taken
by Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West. He was serving near Tikrit, fighting
insurgents loyal to deposed dictator Saddam Hussein. While interrogating a
hostile suspect, he drew his pistol - and fired it, twice.
His intention was not to kill or wound - only to frighten. He succeeded.
The suspect revealed details of a planned ambush. Lt. Col. West saved the
lives of men he commanded, men for whom he felt responsible. For that, he
was accused of "torture," charged with assault and drummed out of the
military.
The McCain amendment would confirm that outcome. It would mandate that
other officers in similar situations walk away - and if that means
innocent men, women and children are slaughtered, so be it.
Should that really be our policy? Can a war can be fought and won with
such limitations? Is that really the moral approach?
Put those questions aside for a moment and consider the more common
scenario: the "high-value suspect," someone in possession of information
not about an imminent threat but about how, for example, terrorist leaders
communicate their orders, how they raise funds and distribute weapons, how
they recruit, train and deploy suicide bombers and those who plant
explosives along roads.
Instilling a moment of fear, as Lt. Col. West did, would be unlikely to
get such suspects to reveal all they know. And more severe forms of
"torture" - already illegal under U.S. law - would probably not be the
best way to induce them to cooperate. What can succeed are interrogation
techniques short of torture: physical "stress" coupled with psychological
"duress." But such techniques may be seen as "degrading" and so might be
outlawed by the McCain amendment.
Clearly, lines need to be drawn and someone must have both the expertise
and authority to draw them. More than a year ago, former federal
prosecutor and legal expert Andrew C. McCarthy proposed the establishment
of a "national-security court," a tribunal that would "monitor the
detention of terrorist captives."
It also could be empowered to decide, in consultation with physicians,
psychologists and intelligence experts, which techniques are always to be
prohibited (for example, those likely to cause death or permanent
disability), and which are permissible -- and effective.
Trained government interrogators should be required to apply to the court
for authorization to use specific techniques in specific instances. What
the court would license for use against a "ticking time bomb" would differ
from what it would allow against a bin Laden lieutenant -- and both would
differ from what would be permitted to elicit information from a low-value
combatant.
The key decisions would not fall on the shoulders of an isolated army
officer in the field - no soldier should be made to go through what Lt.
Col. West has experienced. But neither would decisions about sacrificing
innocent lives be made by international bureaucrats or lawyers
representing self-proclaimed "human rights" organizations.
Wouldn't this be better than a no-holds-barred approach? Wouldn't it be
better than treating terrorists with kid gloves? Wouldn't it be preferable
to the McCain amendment?
Clifford D. May is the president of the Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism and a Townhall.com
partner organization.
Bill Ott
Index Austin Real Estate, Inc.
1950 Rutland Dr.
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 476-3300 P
(512) 476-3310 F
bill@indexaustin.com
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