Fair, Eric

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April 4, 2016

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'It Was Torture': An Abu Ghraib Interrogator Acknowledges 'Horrible Mistakes'

Forget "enhanced interrogation techniques" — Eric Fair says what he did as an interrogator in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was torture.

"The idea that there's interrogation, and then enhanced interrogation, and then torture — there is no middle ground," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Torture is an enhanced interrogation."

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