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Obviously, the CIA can and should develop specific interrogation tactics that are classified
NO, NO, NO, NO!
My objection is not the development of interrogation techniques but their classification. I would have thought that in your position you'd have learned (a) to never trust your government and (b) that any power given to the government can and will be abused. Does the government need to be able to keep things secret? Sure. We don't want other countries knowing the capabilities of our military systems. We need to keep negotiations with foreign countries secret until they are complete. We need to keep the names of our spies secret. I'm running out of things that need to be kept secret here. Have you ever heard of SI/SAO (Special Investigation/Special Access Only)? So they develop their new techniques - enhanced versions of the thumb screws/fingernail splints/waterboarding/rack/crucifixion that we currently are using. They then classify it as utter top secret and further identify it as Special Access Only. A grand total of a dozen people know what it is. So they can merrily continue to torture people simply because nobody who might object knows about it (that's the special access part).
One of the most pernicious things the government does (and this is not limited to the Shrubbite regime) is abuse the classification system. The government has, is, and, unless we do something about it, will continue to hide illegal, immoral, and unethical behavior behind the shroud of secrecy. Does it not set off alarms in your head when the government continues to keep key evidence from the Gulf of Tonkin incident classified more than 40 years after the event? The Shrubbites have raised this to new heights where they can capture foreign nationals in a foreign country which we are occupying after a war that violated a variety of international treaties, charge them with crimes under American law (even though he's never been to the US), try them without having to prove a damn thing - the evidence is classified so you just have to trust us - thus neatly preventing the poor bastard from knowing what he is really accused of doing as well as preventing him from rebutting it and then throw him back into his solitary confinement in a cell the size of a postage stamp.
Hello Franz Kafka.
You call this justice? You call yourself a lawyer? You oughtta be ashamed of yourself.
