Peter Maguire Quotes
Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.
Peter Maguire, Historian, C-SPAN, Book TV, April 23, 2005
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He was finally brought to justice after being protected by the right wing for many years. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. See related quote.
Under torture many people will tell their interrogators what they want to hear --- accurate or not.
At that time in American History, the George W. Bush Justice Department had a small team of lawyers who wrote a legal brief that defined torture in such a way that many of the most common forms of torture were no longer legal torture, even though they had been torture in American law and were again torture after this embarrassing episode of American history. The renamed techniques were called “enhanced interrogation” and a few terrorist suspects were subjected to it before the rules and laws were changed and the “legal opinions” nullified. The FBI and military intelligence did not use the so called enhanced interrogation techniques as they felt that torture produced unreliable intelligence as the victim will say anything the questioner wants to hear to end the torture. They also thought the Justice department memo was sloppy and defective legal work. Senator McCain was a particular expert on torture in that he had, during the Vietnam War, been captured and imprisoned for 7 years during which he had been tortured on several occasions.
It is surprising that these ideas would come from one of the most autocratic powerful monarch in the world at the time. However there were many very liberal influences on her from Europe. This set of proposals she even sent to Voltaire to get his feedback and criticism. As late as 2006 the American President was reluctant to outlaw torture for terroristsand the Vice President actually argued for its retention as an interrogation technique. Over 300 years earlier the autocrat of Russia argued against it.
Peter Jason Maguire is a former professional footballer, born in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, who played as a striker in the Football League for Leeds United, Huddersfield Town and Stockport County. He also played for Swedish club IFK Osby (on loan), and Emley F.C., a Yorkshire-based English Non League club, and in both the Scottish Highland Football League, and then the Scottish Football League with Elgin City F.C. when Elgin were promoted in 2000 from the Highland Football League to the Scottish Football League, and subsequently with Forres Mechanics F.C., and Lossiemouth F.C., both Scottish Highland Football League clubs.
