...the OLC, for example, only acts "of an extreme nature" could "rise to the level of torture Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." Anything less than this, according to then-OLC head (and now federal judge) Jay Bybee, appears to be...

...that the Justice Department decided that torture requires the infliction of pain so severe that it is "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying...failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." This definition, which flies in the face of US military doctrine and international law, would permit...

...memo to Alberto R. Gonzales, all that hurts is not torture. The memo emphatically states, "Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." Let's take the Gonzales test. Get a ball-peen hammer. Put the first joint of your forefinger on a hard...

...constitute torture as defined in Section 2340, it must inflict pain that is difficult to endure. Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death. For purely mental pain or suffering to amount to torture under Section 2340, it must result in significant...

...their extreme nature and in the type of harm caused to violate law." The memo asserted that "physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." The memo also suggested that Mtp:/A«ww. hrw.org/englifih/docs/2u04/05/24/usirrt8614 Mm The view is...

...Post—inflicting moderate or fleeting pain does not necessarily constitute torture. Torture, the memo says, "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." "And by the way, there's a reason—I'll conclude by saying— there's a reason why we sign these treaties:...

...memorandum defined what constitutes prohibited torture very narrowly, including the claim that, "physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity...injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, or even death." Judge Chertoff has acknowledged that he was consulted on how he, as chief...

...torture. Under a federal law that criminalizes torture, the Torture Act, Bybee claimed that an act "must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying...failure, impairment of bodily function or even death," before falling within the act s definition of torture. Not only does such a narrow definition redefine...

...torture,” Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee advised the Counsel to the President, Alberto Gonzales, “must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying...failure, impairment of bodily function or even death.” xin That was Bybee's construction of the federal law against torture, to which the United States is...

...17, 2004), Ai; Jehl, "US Action." 30. More precisely, torture referred to acts that inflicted pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying...failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." But inflicting such pain was not illegal unless done with "the specific intent to inflict severe pain"—"even...