One of the few heroes in the U.S.’s shameful adoption of torture over the last few years is Tony Lagouranis. Lagouranis, a former military interrogator, returned from Iraq — where, unlike Guantanamo Bay, the Bush administration has never contended that the Geneva Conventions don’t apply — and blew the whistle to Human Rights Watch about how deeply coercive interrogations have taken root in Iraq. Along with Captain Ian Fishback, who wrote to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2005 about the coercive techniques his superiors recommended he use in interrogation, Lagouranis put his reputation at risk by his disclosure. But according to today’s Washington Post, Lagouranis won’t let himself off the hook for what he did in Iraq.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180721