degrading

Not to pull an Oliver or anything, but from time to time I see variations on stories like this in the American media. At first it may seem funny, but how do people here really feel about these kinds of punishments? I know the laws over here in Norway explicitly prohibit degrading punishments...

CIA Director Porter Goss says the CIA uses cruel, inhumane or degrading but not torture. http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/21/cia.prisoners.ap/index.html CBL

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051006-121717-4560r.htm Even though this is not law yet, it is very good news that 90% of the senate has some morality. I hope that they follow through on this. In the absence of clear law, the president has asserted powers which are clearly...

By Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/11/AR2005091101085.html

New Prison Images Emerge Graphic Photos May Be More Evidence of Abuse By Christian Davenport Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 6, 2004; Page A01 "The collection of photographs begins like a travelogue from Iraq. Here are U.S. soldiers posing in front of a mosque. Here is a soldier...