Rejali

Experts in the history of torture, such as the Reed College professor Darius Rejali, make very careful distinctions between the disparate acts of torture or abuse that take place in all wars and a bureaucratized top-down policy, whereby identical techniques are replicated across the globe in different services and under different commands, with some on-the-ground improvisation as well.

Dear President Bush, 2009

Darius Rejali notes that long-time standing, for example, causes the ankles and feet to swell to twice their size within twenty-four hours.

Dear President Bush, 2009

Darius Rejali notes that long-time standing, for example, causes the ankles and feet to swell to twice their size within twenty-four hours.

Dear President Bush, 2009

That book contains no study of torture that demonstrates, or even claims to demonstrate, that, under a utilitarian analysis, the costs of torture outweigh the benefits [emphasis added] “Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point.”

One Waterboarding Is a Tragedy; A Million Is a Statistic 2009

Experts in the history of torture, such as the Reed College professor Darius Rejali, make very careful distinctions between the disparate acts of torture or abuse that take place in all wars and a bureaucratized top-down policy, whereby identical techniques are replicated across the globe in different services and under different commands, with some on-the-ground improvisation as well.

Dear President Bush, 2009

Experts in the history of torture, such as the Reed College professor Darius Rejali, make very careful distinctions between the disparate acts of torture or abuse that take place in all wars and a bureaucratized top-down policy, whereby identical techniques are replicated across the globe in different services and under different commands, with some on-the-ground improvisation as well.

Dear President Bush, 2009

Prof. Darius Regali -- author of the book Torture and Democracy and, like Rodriguez, a critic of CIA interrogations -- has described the techniques used by the Nazis: In Austria, Rejali writes, “the Viennese Gestapo ... favored grinding cigarettes slowly into the back of a hand.”

Bush and the 'specter of Mengele' 2010

According to Rejali, the Nazis even had their own form of waterboarding.

Bush and the 'specter of Mengele' 2010

Darius Rejali goes further, and demonstrates that often cited examples of successful torture are actually misleading.

Scalia Openly Condones Torture : Law is Cool 2008

But as Rejali told me, “Anyone who compares what we did to the Nazis is just totally off base.”

Bush and the 'specter of Mengele' 2010