Giuliani Brags About Using "Intensive" Interrogation Techniques As a Prosecutor

[kpete]

Giuliani Brags About Using "Intensive" Interrogation Techniques As a Prosecutor
Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise on November 5, 2007 at 5:08 AM.

An interviewer asked presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani whether he knew more about torture than his opponent John McCain. Giuliani replied:


MR. GIULIANI: I can't say that I do but I do know a lot about intensive questioning and intensive questioning techniques. After all, I have had a different experience than John. John has never been - he has never run city, never run a state, never run a government. He has never been responsible as a mayor for the safety and security of millions of people, and he has never run a law enforcement agency, which I have done.


Now, intensive questioning works. If I didn't use intensive questioning, there would be a lot of mafia guys running around New York right now and crime would be a lot higher in New York than it is. Intensive question has to be used. Torture should not be used. The line between the two is a difficult one.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/66942/#more

[WCGreen]

1. Rudy's supposed crime boss sweep of the degenerates from NYC

was really a coming of age of the last lead baby's...

NYC removed most of the lead in apartments by 1977 and so the kids born after that were not as affected by lead in their environment...

The less lead, the less volatile behavior...

Here is something from a post I put up in September....

"Although crime did fall dramatically in New York during Giuliano's tenure, a broad range of scientific research has emerged in recent years to show that the mayor deserves only a fraction of the credit that he claims. The most compelling information has come from an economist in Fairfax who has argued in a series of little-noticed papers that the "New York miracle" was caused by local and federal efforts decades earlier to reduce lead poisoning.

The theory offered by the economist, Rick Nevin, is that lead poisoning accounts for much of the variation in violent crime in the United States. It offers a unifying new petrochemical theory for fluctuations in the crime rate, and it is based on studies linking children's exposure to lead with violent behavior later in their lives.

What makes Nevin's work persuasive is that he has shown an identical, decades-long association between lead poisoning and crime rates in nine countries."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

[madokie]

2. I can't or won't believe that dude could instill fear in anyone in any way, shape or fashion

other than the fear he instills in me if'n he was elected pResident

[truebrit71]

3. "The line between the two is a difficult one"? Huh?

That line, by itself should be enough to make sure that this egotistical maniac NEVER sees the inside of the Oval Office....

Oh, and Rudy, you were a fucking MAYOR....a MAYOR...that's all...thinking that you were president of NY in your mind, doesn't mean that you are the most qualified candidate...or did you as NYC's chief ribbon-cutter negotiate peace treaties or conduct foreign policy? Or for that matter did you plan for national strategic defense policy or plan the national budget? Which heads of state quacked when you rattled your sabres? Oh, that's right NOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNEEEEE!!! You were a fucking mayor.

Get over yourself you schmuck...:eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

4. Rudy Learned From The Masters

Every time I see this scumbag these days, I think of him like his nemesis John Gotti. Kerik's his Sammy the Bull. Somehow I hope there are tapes of those two plotting and scheming somewhere.

Here's hoping that Rudy gets the nomination and shortly thereafter the 9/11 lawsuit goes to trial...the one the City of New York is investigating. The amount of crap coming out about this guy, along with his alienating the religious right, will make him an easily beatable candidate. For those who think he's the best bet to beat Hillary...think again. No matter how many on this side grumble about her, the alienation Ghouliani presents on the right is 10 times worse and will increase as the primaries heat up. I suspect we'll see some serious mudslinging and hair-pulling between him and Mittens in the run-up to the big primaries on Feb 5.

[Cassandra]

5. So has he now opened up NYC taxpayers...

to lawsuits by people whom he interrogated "intensively"?