Morris D. Davis Quotes
Torture is an extremely effective tool for getting people to talk. It is a terrible tool for getting people to tell the truth.
Morris D. Davis, Air Force Colonel, Attorney & Guantanamo Prosecutor of Islamic Terrorists, Interview, America Tonight, December 11, 2014
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The George W. Bush administration had issued a memorandum to key Federal Agencies stating that certain types of torture were legal—a finding that was quickly repudiated after Bush and VP Cheney—who was a leading force for allowing torture of terrorism suspects—were out of office. But Bush had told the American People and the World that the United States will not torture any prisoners. The dilemma was “solved” when someone came up with this euphemism.
Under torture many people will tell their interrogators what they want to hear --- accurate or not.
Two years later the CIA adopted an official formal policy against inhumane treatment during interrogation and the manual was changed.
Rendition is the process whereby one country sends a prisoner to another country for interrogation under the theory that the second country can use methods that would be illegal in the first country. Usually torture is involved.
He was responsible for the genocide of 2 million Cambodians.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 whites. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find. This description was of a North Carolina community.
Morris Durham "Moe" Davis is an American retired U.S. Air Force colonel, attorney, educator, politician, and former administrative law judge.
