interrogation

A Sikh man who was removed from a greyhound bus after a passenger mistook him speaking Punjabi for Arabic is asking authorities to press charges against the passenger who had accused him of making a bomb threat.

In July 2004, despite growing internal concerns about the CIA’s brutal interrogation methods, senior members of George W. Bush’s national security team gave the agency permission to employ the harsh tactics against an al-Qaida facilitator the agency suspected was linked to a plot to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.

When the CIA sought permission to use harsh interrogation methods on a captured al-Qaida operative, the response from Bush administration lawyers was encouraging, even clinical.