The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Whitney, Mike
http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney12132007.html
Date Written: 2007-12-13
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2007
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX7150
Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
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