{"id":442,"date":"2002-03-14T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T21:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/if-we-cant-torture-here\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:26:05","slug":"if-we-cant-torture-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/if-we-cant-torture-here\/","title":{"rendered":"If we can&#8217;t torture here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16408,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guardian.co.uk\\\/afghanistan\\\/story\\\/0,1284,665939,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/afghanistan\\\/story\\\/0,1284,665939,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This world just gets more and more frightening all the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/afghanistan\/story\/0,1284,665939,00.html\" title=\"Hmm...how long before Bush's 'Homeland Security' initiatives decree that I can land in jail -- or be sent overseas -- for posting links like this one?\">can be subjected to torture and threats to their families to extract information sought by the US<\/a> in the wake of the September 11 attacks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan can be subjected to torture and threats to their families to extract information sought by the US in the wake of the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}